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Want to Delete Your Threads Profile? Then Delete Your Instagram Account, Says Meta
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Privacy Police out in full force in this post!
As opposed to Meta astroturfers?
Everything I don't like about Twitter combined with everything I don't like about Meta. Skipping this one.
I just made mine private, logged out of the app, and deleted the “Threads” app.
I’ve never had a Facebook account, but I’ve had a IG account for a decade+
My IG account just shows a small icon with my membership number, nothing else realistically changed 😑 + nobody can cyber-squat on my profile name easily 😬
…still sneaky-scummy move though
I’ve never had a Facebook account, but I’ve had a IG account for a decade+
My IG account just shows a small icon with my membership number, nothing else realistically changed 😑 + nobody can cyber-squat on my profile name easily 😬
…still sneaky-scummy move though
I feel it’s disingenuous by meta and Zuck to claim new signs-up per whatever to celebrate some victory, it should technically be linked accounts not new accounts as one needs an Instagram account to even use threads and cannot sign-up without Instagram. What this can do is increase Instagram account sign-up for those interested in checking out threads and once figure it’s half-baked either will be discouraged to delete said Instagram account or just become abandoned and meta and Zuck still claims some bs stats to boost stock market interest.
Seems like and scam and scummy move but that is Zuck and Co., for you all.
Yeah, that’s a “solution”, but not really. 🤷♂
Most people would just want to keep one or the other and kill what they’re not using.
Like I said, it makes sense if you want to discourage people who signed up from leaving, which is their main goal, but ideally you’d be able to delete them independently of the other.
Opening a new account just so I can kill one isn’t a good model for me. But it’s just my view.
Thanks Meta, just deleted both my Instagram and Facebook accounts
Definitely not a good move by Meta. There should be a way to delete Threads account alone.
This site covers a wide variety of tech topics and has an alternative and communities section. You’ve been here years and should know this.
Or… IG users will not try Threads because they don’t want to delete their accounts if they end up wanting to delete Threads. Dumb. Seems an annoying approach - which is so Meta. No thanks.
Isn't this the same as your Instagram posts? Obviously if you want to test out Threads, probably best to just set up a burner Instagram account to see if you like what you see.
Nope. I expected no different. If it comes out of Zucks mouth, or from his PR / Ad camp, it's a lie. Whether they tell the truth about anything ever again or not, they have been caught in lies too many times. Worse, they don't seem to care one little bit.
A right scummy company. They obviously know that people won’t hang around. I expect this type of thing from Zuckerwhatever.
Who are Instragram's competitors? Tik Tok? Would be fun to see Elon/Twitter buy one out or roll their own just to mess with Zuck/FB.
Impossible. WhatsApp is the de-facto standard everywhere, except for the US. If you delete WhatsApp you're effectively cut off from everyone. Same with Instagram, good luck getting a date without it.
Exactly. WhatsApp is the default messaging app in Europe so it would be impossible to stop using it unless everybody did all at once. It’s been used for well over a decade and is as ingrained in our daily lives as doing a Google search is.
People who don't like twitter but choose this suckerberg scam instead are choosing pest over cholera... Like anything he does I would stay away from automatically. If there are legal issues with it on top of that in the EU then it shows the guy just cannot make any money without stealing data or braking some privacy laws.