<story><title>How Facebook handles account deletions</title><url>https://pageflows.com/blog/delete-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshMnem</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Your friends will miss you!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The company seems to have a strong culture of gaslighting and manipulating users. When I saw that screen, there were people there that definitely wouldn&amp;#x27;t miss me and who would probably be appalled that their identities were being used in that way.&lt;p&gt;When other people quit Facebook, it&amp;#x27;s likely that your photo is being presented to other users (who you may not really know) telling them that you will miss them. It&amp;#x27;s terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varrock</author><text>I deleted Instagram 6 months ago. I recently came into contact with somebody in person, and they told me that they were aware I was deleting social media because Instagram told them to re-invite me back to the platform. It was this moment that I realized you&amp;#x27;re never truly out of the system. What is the point of me deleting my Instagram if I am still showing up on people&amp;#x27;s application?</text></comment>
<story><title>How Facebook handles account deletions</title><url>https://pageflows.com/blog/delete-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshMnem</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Your friends will miss you!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The company seems to have a strong culture of gaslighting and manipulating users. When I saw that screen, there were people there that definitely wouldn&amp;#x27;t miss me and who would probably be appalled that their identities were being used in that way.&lt;p&gt;When other people quit Facebook, it&amp;#x27;s likely that your photo is being presented to other users (who you may not really know) telling them that you will miss them. It&amp;#x27;s terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>existencebox</author><text>This is something I&amp;#x27;ve seen across the board, and have always been hesitant to say something lest I come off as &amp;quot;that crazy guy who feels bad because his cloud console has a frowny face next to the fact that something broke.&amp;quot;  (as a tongue-in-cheek example.)  There are certainly other products I&amp;#x27;ve used in recent memory that played the &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll miss you, don&amp;#x27;t go!&amp;quot; game on uninstalling, but I can&amp;#x27;t pull their names off the top of my head, and I don&amp;#x27;t recall them being QUITE as blatant as to use pictures of your friends.&lt;p&gt;The amount of anthropomorphism and insertion of emotional levers into tech tools&amp;#x2F;products is something I&amp;#x27;ve always had a very visceral reaction against, but at least for consumer products (and unfortunately, increasingly in the SaaS space as well) it seems to be gaining traction.  I have no doubt that it _works_ from a psychological perspective, but I wonder if I&amp;#x27;m alone in feeling offput as a user.  Clearly alone enough that it doesn&amp;#x27;t move the needle in terms of efficacy, unfortunately. (unfortunately in the context of whatever weird emotional pathology I&amp;#x27;ve apparently developed have with my tooling :) )</text></comment>