Well, apparently "deactivate" is different from "delete". When you "delete", your whole account vanishes from the face of this earth. When you "deactivate", you simply make yourself invisible to the facebook world, but your account still exists. And get this, the moment you log in again, you're back on facebook, like nothing's ever changed. I mean, then why in the world have a "deactivate" option???
My whole purpose of deactivating was to create barriers for myself to get back on again, without the loss of friends/photos/info added by friends or myself. I can't bring myself to totally delete the account because some part of me already lives on facebook.
But with no barriers at all when my fingers assume a life of their own and type my email add and password to try (yes, just trying) to log in again? No extra dialogue boxes to fill out personal particulars again? No "if you deactivate your account 3 times it'll get deleted by the administrators" warning?
I mean, seriously, what is the point of the "deactivate" option?
It just doesn't make sense.
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What I've done is just to delete or hide people. But anyway, these days I don't use Facebook much either, except to just upload a photo album or two.
dsd, i found myself trawling fb everyday to read pple's status updates. one day i decided that it was ridiculous!!! so today is Day 2 of cold turkey. the deactivate option is just useless. it is I that has to control Myself from logging in again.
i deactivated my facebook account on sept 13 and have not looked back since. you can do it too.
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