You certainly fooled yourself in assuming that, it is, at least I thought it was, common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access.
I seems to remember this was exposed a few years back with the introduction of a "past memories" features or something that mistakenly took some of the supposedly deleted content and put it in the spotlight.
They hold onto this data because:
1. You gave them full legal rights to do so by agreeing to their ToS and giving them full ownership of everything ever collected on you by facebook.
2. Exploiting user data is how the make money. (well that and investor story time).
> ... common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access.
That is correct, I remember there even was a presentation video from one of FBs engineers describing exactly that, also that they intended to burn that data to long time storage archival discs (probably already are). I have no time to look for that video but if someone knows what it was called please link to it, it should be somewhere on the youtubes.
I seems to remember this was exposed a few years back with the introduction of a "past memories" features or something that mistakenly took some of the supposedly deleted content and put it in the spotlight.
They hold onto this data because: 1. You gave them full legal rights to do so by agreeing to their ToS and giving them full ownership of everything ever collected on you by facebook. 2. Exploiting user data is how the make money. (well that and investor story time).