Deactivating your account is sort of like putting it into hibernation - all your information is stored and can be re-activated if you have second thoughts. A word of warning, ‘deactivating’ your account is not the same as deleting it. The only sure-fire way to avoid giving up this information is to delete your accounts entirely. This is the price you pay for using a ‘free’ service. Similar levels of data harvesting occurs on all major social media sites. Everything from who you have poked, what events you have or have not attended and when and where you have logged into your account is logged and saved. Head to /settings and click ‘ Download a copy of your Facebook data’ and you might be surprised to see just how much information is on file. The amount of personal data that social networking sites like Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter have harvested from their billions of users is shocking. Photograph: Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images 3.
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