I took the time to delete everything manually. I thought it was all gone. Then some stuff started to appear. I have no way of knowing whether I pressed delete on this stuff or whether it didn't appear at the time, but the point is that deleting all your stuff by pressing the delete button and viewing a seemingly blank profile does not mean your stuff is actually all gone. Next step - deleting profile entirely.
Oh, here's the fun part: you can only delete what you can see. If you posted something on a user's profile who disabled their account, you can't delete it until they enable their account again.
So even if you delete everything you see, if an old friend who disabled their account re-enables it, there's a fresh batch of content about you.
Like dleslie said, speculating obviously. However since this is about compliance with EU law, actually location has nothing to do with it. It's about being a EU citizen.
If Facebook refuses to do the deleting thing for an (actual) EU citizen because they claim their location tracking shows they aren't located within the EU, they are going to have a problem.
If, however, the EU citizen selects in their profile that they live in the US, and then FB refuses to delete their data, the courts are probably going to look favourably on them, cause the user explicitly said so.
Since FB most definitely is absolutely, unforgivably, NOT allowed to request or handle the nationality data in EU passports, for purposes of being a EU citizen, they're pretty much going to have to rely that you're whatever nationality you say that you are.
Did they re-appear after you had remembered deleting them, or were they just not fetched when you looked the first time? I think Cassandra might be to blame where it returned a bunch of wall posts but not all of them when you looked back in history the first time.
This too! I've seen in happen as well in my quest to delete a couple years ago.
The UX is useless by design to make it really hard to bulk delete, the backend is shitty and you can't see your content on friend's walls that disabled their account.
It is bad to the point that you wonder if it is on purpose. My guess is that it is. "Shitty product" as a deterrent to deletion.
Try building a scalable database to billions of users on ad revenue and make it retrieve all data from years ago within the time constraints that users want to see newsfeed items in, you'll see ;)
I must have deleted over 10k things, so there's no chance of remembering whether they were on the list of things I deleted or simply didn't appear.
I mostly used the Activity Log (button at the top of your profile page) to do the deletion. There are filters there so you can see the different types of interactions. Removing them is different, e.g. Delete vs Unlike.
During the process, I did notice things appearing which had previously not appeared, so that definitely does happen. I kept going back to see if there was new stuff to delete. The whole process took me about 3 months.
The plot twist is that this all happened over 6 months ago. My profile has been empty the whole time, until sometime within the past couple of weeks, where posts have started to re-appear.
Last year I ran a script to do just this. It didn't get everything, but I eventually gave up. I recently tried Social Book Post Manager to accomplish the same thing.
While it did a better job, despite my activity feed being clear, I'm still seeing a lot of posts.
The rub is that I can delete posts that show up from 2008, but that same post will show up on refresh.
Looks like I'm moving to Europe for a day in a few months.
