One year ago I dumped my facebook account. I deleted all my posts, all my photos, all my friends, renamed my name to a fictitious name, and closed the account.
The problem is when you close the account it's still there so that's why I went through the hassle of deleting everything. WHY? I'll tell you why. I've been married to my wife for 26 years. She's awesome, she's my best friend too. A Girlfriend I had before I met my wife found me on facebook, next thing you know an old circle of friends found me. My youngest son's gf was also posting questions to her friends, I was also a friend. The post said "should I pierce my nose" ? Me being the way I am said "hell no, you have a cute little nose. a piercing would make you look like a skank."... well.. maybe skank means more than it did in the 80s. My youngest son and his gf was upset with me so I said you know what ? Enough of this crap. I was using fb to share photos of 4 wheeling with my Jeep and stuff, I don't care to know what everyone is up to. And if my sweet wife read what the old gf posted out of context, she would get upset. So I deleted everything. It's been a year now and no more fb notifications! I prefer to keep it that way.
My son's gf never got her nose pierced, in the end she agreed that her nose is too cute. And it turned out her dad said something similar to what I said.
She's still with my son.
I feel relieved that the old GF can't find me. I never posted my true street address, only the region I live in, that is all.