I have an old facebook account, I don’t have access to or even remember my phone number or email that was associated with the account. I also don’t have “three friends”…is there anything I can do to delete that account?

  • pinknoise
    5·
    3 years ago

    I’m pretty sure they delete accounts¹ after some time of inactivity, but this might only apply to newer (>2016) accounts. If you used your real name, and know the approximate time you created and abandoned the account you could just write them requesting the deletion. Won’t hurt to include some vague legal basis (GDPR, wasn’t 13 when registered etc.)

    [1] They just set them as inactive in their db and garbage collect that occasionally, but at least no one can impersonate you if the login leaks or whatever

    I also don’t have “three friends”

    :(

    • stopitOP
      4·
      3 years ago

      Thanks for the sad face! But…I do indeed have more than three friends, just not on facebook!

      I wrote to them, with a picture of my ID and was told, that my account “was not set up to recover with ID”! My account has been inactive since 2017 and it is still on line. I created another account with no picture and a random gmail, and then today, reported the old account as fake. I’m hopeing that will do it.

    • stopitOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      The problem is, around 2017, I discovered the errors of my past ways, and am trying to go completely free software. I don’t want my pictures associated with facebook, even if it is inactive. But, yeah, they really don’t like to delete accounts, which makes this even more unsettling for me.

    • stopitOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      what is the “1000 mail” that you speak of?