Because I don’t really believe Facebook operations department when they say that they have deleted my personal information. I wrote about this before: that you can’t delete your account yourself, you can only “deactivate it in case you want to come back.” You have to specifically email them to ask for your account to be deleted.

This is what I was saying about deletion earlier today, that in the computing world it tends to mean reassignment of value-status, as opposed to actually being eliminated altogether.

After a few days of waiting, in mid-June, Facebook wrote me back (I made sure to get specific “written” [electronic] record that they deleted the information):

Hi Tim,

We have deleted your profile information and removed your email address from our login database. Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns.

Thanks,

Oliver
User Operations
Facebook

I’m curious how my account deletion has affected other people within my [community of meaning]. Are comments I made or actions I took within their virtual world altogether eliminated, or have they now some kind of anonymous actor who was responsible for actions which remain? Have I been blown out of existence as a node in their network, like the mysterious sephiroth on the Tree of Life, or do they retain me as a “null” node, out of which connective information between others still radiate?