I Really Did Delete Facebook

PAUL DETTMANN
4 min readMar 28, 2018

There are pockets of resistance. Elon Musk has deleted his company’s pages from Facebook. Playboy has now followed suit. I began at the beginning: I requested a download of all my Facebook data. I was horrified. I unpublished a couple of pages, which had no likes anyway. Then I re-enabled them. Then I had to Google ‘how to delete Facebook’ because there is no way that a normal human can find the button to do it. The only ‘delete’ button I found required a death certificate — that’s a length even I decided was a step too far. There had to be another way. There was. I did it.

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PAUL DETTMANN

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