One of the issues that comes up when helping people get off proprietary social media is the amount of data retained even if they close their account.
It is easy enough for somebody to take a backup of their Facebook account and then click to delete it. Is it better for people to go through their profile more vigorously though, messing up all the data? For example, changing their date of birth to something random (if they actually used their real DoB to begin with), deleting the groups used to classify friends, deleting photos, deleting things like their relationship status, maybe even deleting all their posts and comments one by one? Should they do it all in one go, or stagger it over 2 - 3 months so that it is not so obvious that they were putting in false data before account deletion? Are there any existing articles or blogs that are recommended for people going through this process? Are there any tools that can help people?
