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The issue is that Facebook's services (Instagram, WhatsApp) have operated with independent account systems for close to a decade, and no one account should be required to use one service. Facebook (the app) is an unrelated platform from Oculus in terms of function, so this is more like if deleting your Twitter deleted your Steam games. In that context its easy to understand why people might be a little frustrated

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I totally get the frustration but there's so much bundling already (oh lord if you delete your Google or Microsoft account) that this anger seems to be more about Facebook specifically than the act of having a single account system for multiple unrelated services.

Great question. If I delete my Google account, will I lose access to websites that I logged into them with? Especially if its a Gmail account, I can't even retrieve with Forgot your Pass, huh?

I think it also comes back to the nature of social media accounts and not just Facebook. There's essentially no reason you need to delete a hotmail account, you can just completely ignore it instead. That means you never have a devil's choice of not deleting your hotmail account to keep access to xbox games.

Social media accounts are by their nature a large amount of photos, posts, tags, personal info that other people will see including employers, immigration officials, future dates. There are very good reasons you may want to delete it (and prevent future tags, wall posts) rather than just abandon it, so it becomes more problematic if you cannot without other penalties.

Right, but a great way to diffuse that anger would be to _not_ have a single account system, an idea Facebook seems to refuse outright. This is not a move a company like Facebook can make at least currently, given how little users trust them with their data

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