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How to delete your Instagram account in 3 easy steps.
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It's almost as if Meta is a large corporate entity that's focused primarily on its own survival and future financial growth over the needs of the constant phone checkers it can throw adverts in front of. Imagine!
There's nothing here that isn't resolved by the realisation that Twitter, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, Whatever aren't essential.
A "law" I just made up: the amount of information you need remains constant over time. The increasing number of channels just dilute this.
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This article reminded me that I have an Instagram account that I created a long time ago and never looked at. I just deleted it Finally, something useful from Slashdot.
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There's nothing here that isn't resolved by the realisation that Twitter, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, Whatever aren't essential.
You're right. They're not essential. They're just horribly addictive by design, and legally marketed towards children.
Perhaps join an AA/NA meeting and come to the realisation that addiction isn't a matter resolved easily, which should be obvious by now. There are many animals I naturally fear while walking through a zoo, but that fear is starting to pale in comparison to watching a grown-ass addict melt down and lash out over a dead/broken/lost/stolen smartphone.
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Really - I'm ashamed of you failing to recognise that he is an overwhelming disinterested philanthropist with no interests in mind other than to maximise the happiness of humanity. How CAN you believe otherwise?
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This is as dark a pattern as they come... Meta is becoming a true 'Hotel California'
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Don't go in.
Then you never have to worry about being able to leave.
Problem Solved.-
by geekmux ( 1040042 ) on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:56AM (#63661488)
Uh huh.
Remember when "Don't go in" was valid advice for avoiding Facebook, until you found a profile created for you to feed whatever marketing, followed by an infectious web campaign to follow people across the internet well beyond the facebook.com domain you never actually used?
We're still talking about the same company here. And the same CEO.
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and it appears they are doing the same thing - I have an instagram account and it appears I already have a threads account created for me. of course i will never use it, but one has to wonder how you get 10 million sign ups in 7 hours with no media blitz..
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They aren't unique accounts. There's just one account here used for multiple purposes. This is the same for basically any company. Delete your Apple ID means you won't be able to use Apple Music. Terminate the Microsoft account you use for OneDrive, don't expect Office365 to work.
And at least they are using Instagram for this. It was a disaster when they used Facebook for Oculus and released the Quest 2 right around election time and mass-banned a lot of Facebook accounts.
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Yes, but this is not exactly the same. Threads profile means you are exposed to that service and also its ToS. A better analogy would be MS linking Office365 account to LinkedIn.
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I'd be very surprised if the Thread's ToS is any different from Instagram's. But in any case if you deactivate your Thread profile there's very little ways in which you could violate the ToS is there not?
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IMO, GP had the analogy parts right, but simply in the wrong order. This would be like, delete your Apple Music account means deleting your Apple ID and all associated accounts; Delete your MS OneDrive account and it takes out your Microsoft account as well (which will break all other services and accounts that use that Microsoft account).
Using Facebook for Oculus is exactly the same as using Instagram for Thread - New service directly tied into accounts on existing service. Except if you wanted to untie yo
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I think we're arguing over semantics here. I assume that the reason this is in the "supplemental privacy policy" and not the "terms of service" is because deactivating your Threads profile doesn't cause Facebook to delete all the information they have on you.
Which makes sense, because it's tied to your Instagram account, which you didn't delete.
From what I've heard, you can delete all your posts off Threads and then deactivate the account, but if you want to still be on Instagram, you can't delete the accou
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UK 80's film called "Threads":
Synopsis: The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
So they're threatening to nuke users' accounts. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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We'll see if the EU agrees.
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by echo123 ( 1266692 ) on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:43AM (#63661118)
We'll see if the EU agrees.
Threads doesn't seem to be EU compliant, nor is it accessible in Europe.
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Take a wild guess why.
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> nor is it accessible in Europe.
Thank goodness for that! The Trans-Atlantic Bullshit Filter has modernised beyond films and TV shows into social media too. There was me thinking it was (probably) run by a load of old white guys - maybe I was wrong!
The TABF has, for many years, protected Europeans against the worst of American TV and film. It's meant that we didn't have to put up with the dross output from Hollywood, and for the most part can look upon what we did receive with some warmth and nostalgia -
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The EU (very disappointingly) didn't do shit against the requirement to use a Facebook account on an Oculus headset, and that was orders of magnitude worse since the GDPR additionally has a requirement that your account requirements are not changed *post purchase*. So that one violated the GDPR in more ways than this.
I suspect the EU won't care about this case ,... sadly.
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I bet not signing up in the first place is a great workaround
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but, but... what if you miss out? it's social!!!
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If your business depends on Fear Of Missing Out, it's a good sign that your business can/should be ignored.
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If you want to destroy my Instagram
Hold this thread as I walk away -
"You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account."
This very clearly states that IF you want to delete your Threads profile, you MUST delete your instagram account.
This statement says nothing about what happens if you delete your threads profile. Actually , it implies that you simply can not delete only your threads profile.
Who the hell is writing this clickbait anti facebook trash? Elon musk?
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Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here. Summaries and headlines that grossly distort the facts are par for the course.
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once a user deactivates their Threads profile - is there any need for deleting their account?
Thanks for the explanation.-
In an ideal world, if you delete your account, all associated data is deleted from servers and archives. But we are talking about Facebook and we know they will continue to hold and use data from deleted accounts.
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Thanks.
So, effectively, nothing can be gained by deleting the profile...
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I really have not looked at all; but I would speculate that while you might be able to deactivate/turn off Threads without nuking your Instagram it probably just stops you from being able to post and perhaps people from being able to reply. Meta probably either still makes the existing content available, like perhaps if its deep linked, or may republish in the future some place. What they are telling you is if you really want it gone, you need to delete parent account.
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Thanks.
I'd never trust FB to really delete my data, so I haven't considered this aspect.
So for me, effectively, those options are probably the same...
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I don't have an Instagram account to worry about deleting and by not getting a Threads account I further reduce the risk.
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The only winning move is not to play.
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I could not even guess why anyone is actually using this.. Is the name Facebook and meta attached to it enough to draw attention? Because it seems just as useless as twitter.
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Probably because they want their own curated left-wing safe space, and feel threatened by Musk's freedom of speech like that's a bad thing.
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I thought curated left wing safe spaces were illegal censorship and that is why elon musk bought twitter so he could force you to speak in a way that he finds acceptable?>
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If curated left wing safe spaces draw in advertisers, its the correct move to make. Follow the money. Its really that simple.
But what I think this is about is just Meta turning the crank again on the social media platform life cycle. I think it will fail, not because of anything like "go woke go broke". It will fail because its importing instagram accounts. The problem with instagram is that teenagers don't want to be on it anymore because the instagram demographic cohort is now old enough to be the
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I logged out of my Instagram account months ago. I've been thinking of deleting the account. I wasn't going to try Threads, but this fine print threat sounds like a feature.:-)
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...as if it was a bad thing.
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Maybe the Zuck got hammered on his head a bit too often in his attempt to be the next Green Arrow action hero.
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YOU have to nuke your own profile. THEY don't do it.
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Can we get an enhanced version for privacy advocates and brain wizards? One that quickly and easily nukes all of your Meta accounts in one swift kick?
If this new feature is implemented I might be interested enough to go and create my very first Facebook and Instagram accounts.
PS - They could rename the enhanced version, Shreds.
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If you can deactivate it on the thing you don't want, I don't really see a problem.
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