This highlights a recent episode I went through.<p>I decided to delete everything on my FB account. I didn't want to close, just delete years of photos, posts, likes, comments, etc. Everything. Then these two surprising things happened:<p>Having used Google Takeout many times, with great results, I decided to do the same with FB. For years I used FB as my primary way of storing and sharing photos from my phone (vs my desktop for a DSLR), so there were a lot of photos there that I didn't have anywhere else (pre-Google Photos times).<p>When I downloaded, I was surprised: Facebook downsized all my photos to 90's-era 800x600 pixels, and stripped ALL metadata from it (date, hour, location, camera, etc.). This pissed me off so much. FB wasn't just "not doing a good job", they were purposefully sending me a big "fuck you" letter as I removed my content. FB still had all my images in the original size, and with the metadata, but they chose to give me a shitty version of them.<p>This isn't laziness or incompetence, it's just plain evil.<p>My second surprise was how hard it is to delete content on FB. There's no "delete all", or even a "select and delete". You need to manually click 2-4 times for every single comment, post, picture, etc on a laggy user interface. It almost looks purposefully designed to prevent you from doing so.<p>There are some Chrome extensions that try to automate that, making deleting 1000's of items faster, but FB is constantly trying to break them.<p>So the message is clear: FB doesn't give a fuck about you, and will try its best to fuck you if you want to delete content or even get it back. Don't use FB as content storage, don't expect to have your FB content back.<p>PS: I went ahead and deleted everything anyway. Out of spite.