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> I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it, this is pretty much it, like everything.

This kind of bloody-minded civil obedience is something that I very much like.

Many years ago the supermarket (20? 25?) Safeway (UK) started a customer loyalty card. My flatmates and I applied for one in the name of "Ivor Trotts". That card was only ever used to buy loo paper.

So a browser-plugin to allow me to auto-click all the social buttons might be fun; especially if I can do that on a throwaway social media account. Or maybe it's better if I do it on my main accounts?

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I like Facebook. It helps me keep up with friends in distant places. If you find it to be pernicious and intrusive, don't use it (or use it differently). Don't impose your dislike on others. "Peeing in the pool" is a great metaphor in that regard.

I agree that it can help people keep in touch with other, and i never considered the network effects of doing what I was thinking, which is actually why I'm glad I didn't get around to doing it.

Also another commenter mentioned that facebook does actual get around to deleting things, albeit slowly.

As for imposing my dislike on others, that is a fair arguement, but there is also the other side of the coin to consider. To impose your like of facebook on others. People who want to remain off facebook get pulled into it via tags. While i'm not saying you are doing the tagging, but opting out isn't really an option in a network as vast and pervasive as facebook is.

Another thing to do with store loyalty cards is to always look up by phone number - many people in my extended family live nearby and use the same phone number, so the card has so many purchases on it it becomes useless to target.

this is very simple and should like all the loaded like buttons http://pastebin.com/CUhS9vq4, it also unlikes whatever was already liked though, since fb doesn't seem to change the class.

That's not going to work. Facebook will block you from liking on account of "going way too fast". Calling a sleep() function after every like might help...

So i guess the script would need to include some kind of gradually escalating random "like" increase.

I made this and it seems to work pretty well. http://pastebin.com/bfhw3R7H

You can actually use this method on LinkedIn to endorse all of your friends, and because it offers more results, you can set an interval to endorse infinitely. My LinkedIn friends all hate me now because they've been endorsed for random things.

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