There are a lot of posts and messages going around stating that you need to repost it to prevent Facebook from closing your account down. Let’s get this straight. This is obviously bullshit. I first had this message 3 weeks ago, I did not post it and fuck me if I am not still active on facebook.

Every single time you login to facebook, or post something about yourself or on someone elses wall, a timestamp will be created in the database that contains all the data facebook displays. This timestamp not only confirms when you last did something with your account, it also displays this on your news feed, ie. “so and so said this about an hour ago”. Any decent database design will have time stamping as a priority.

If facebook wishes to delete accounts older than 2 weeks they DO NOT need you to post anything, they can see that your account is active or not by querying said database.

Besides all this, it’s just bullshit marketing to keep people using facebook. Facebook is only interested in the money it can earn from adverts that facebook shows you. The more people log in and click these adverts, the more money it makes.

Come on people, use your heads and stop posting useless bollocks. It’s as bad as spam and those stupid fucking chain letter emails everyone sends out.

And we all hate spam right?