In the all hands meetings they would talk so much about establishing or re-establishing trust, and I always wondered why they don’t just have a “clear everything from high school and college” option. People would _love_ that option, and it would make so many more people comfortable with using the platform again.
A few months ago I went through and deleted all of my Facebook content from 2005 through 2010, except for a few pictures. It took 5+ hours to delete each item individually. A tool to assist this would be very helpful! I’m sure I’m not the only one who wrote a lot of stupid posts and uploaded a lot of embarrassing (and some slightly incriminating) photos to Facebook in college that they don’t want saved forever.
I did the same thing, and yet every couple of years some of those deleted items reappear on the news feed of my second account that I only use to double-check my privacy settings.
It's an European account and I'm wondering if only marking the content as deleted, instead of actually deleting it, violates the GDPR.
Can you report that to the privacy regulator in your European country? The "mark as deleted" versus actual deletion is an important distinction. I can't do anything as a non-European...
I was planning on looking into how to best document it the next time it happens, and whom exactly to report it to (i.e. the national or European data protection authority). Not sure if there is anything else I could do.
Their loss.