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I wonder if facebook archives any of this information? In the past I was very active on facebook interacting with my friends during college. However I have now graduated and slowly began deleting myself from facebook because I no longer have a use for it (and I worry about jobs). If I completely delete my profile, i wonder if they still have my information



Yep, if you want to see what they have you can download it all: https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/


Absolutely they archive this information. The of the monetizable web depends upon it!


This is actually not true, and has been verified by the Irish Data Commission (http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Irelan... see Page 44)

User accounts that are deleted have all associated user created content and data hard deleted after account is deleted. Additionally, a user deletes content (status updates, comments, etc..) that data is hard deleted.




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