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Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now (www.techradar.com)
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The question of whether we'll be uploading our consciousness to a computer is no longer if. It's probably when. That's because these digital consciousnesses – our essences – will likely be the product of an AI's interpretation of ourselves. The breadcrumbs we'll leave across digital files, images, videos, audio recordings, and, of course, all that social media will be an ample resource to reconstruct you.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can't actually delete your Facebook account, though. They just mark it as deleted in the database, but can absolutely still use the information.

[–] claimsou@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Is it sure? I’ve done it 15 years ago but I remember clearly there was an option to delete everything. Could it be that it’s only for EU?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It's pretty rare to actually delete data from a database. It's almost always flagged in a way that the system is supposed to ignore.

But even if you've never had a Facebook account, they create a shadow profile by tracking you through the share on Facebook buttons on websites.

[–] claimsou@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Which makes sense for an ERP software. Because you have financial related data linked to your name. It cannot be deleted or the books would be wrong. After some years it does get deleted because no it’s too expensive to not archive.

But for Facebook, I do not see the reasoning. But I trust them to find a loophole if there is one !

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

That's why people should use a browser that blocks those trackers.