{"id":2301,"date":"2021-06-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2022-06-27T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:09:22","slug":"undoing-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/12\/undoing-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Undoing Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My Facebook account is now reduced to a groupie boosting Like-counts on my wife’s posts, but even this strange marital responsibility and my occasional anti-anti-China taunts are becoming less effective motivators for me to log into the social network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t deactivate the account outright because I know<\/em> that there will be that one need for Facebook when it is least expected — like, an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth, and the only way to secure a passage to Mars is with a Facebook login. So I leave the account active but slowly undo the Timeline. The concept is simple: I ruthlessly eliminate old posts that have lost their appeal until only the bare minimum is left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But recently when a post is deleted, Facebook moves it into a recycle bin. And for it to be gone completely, there is a hurdle of manually emptying the bin. I suspect that Facebook does this in order to retain the precious user creations that underpin its business model. Or perhaps users asked for a way to recover deleted posts. Regardless of their justification, Facebook is malign enough for me to remain sceptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Facebook account is now reduced to a groupie boosting Like-counts on my wife’s posts, but even this strange marital responsibility and my occasional anti-anti-China taunts are becoming less effective motivators for me to log into the social network. I can’t deactivate the account outright because I know that there will be that one need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-B7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3141,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/25\/2010-fifa-world-cup\/","url_meta":{"origin":2301,"position":0},"title":"2010 FIFA World Cup","author":"Eddy Young","date":"25 June 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I am reminded by Facebook of my time at 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. 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