First things first, when i delete any account i have i make sure to delete everything inside the account first, convos, posts, stories or any type of activity.
I’m in process of deleting my instagram and i already cleaned everything up except the final boss, my story archive, i have never toggled the archiving option off so the archive has accumulated stories for around 8 years, and of course meta won’t let you bulk delete the archive.
my question is, does it really matter doing all of that before deleting when it comes to privacy?
or can i just simply ignore the fact that the story archive is still there and delete the account anyway?
I’m not even sure about all the steps that i do but i just do it so everthing feels clean when i arrive to the deletion button.
What is it that you’re trying to achieve by deleting your account?
If you want to stop anyone else, or AI scraping, from using your stories, then I would think that you’d want to erase them.
If you just want to be private or anonymous, then as long as there is no identifying information, you should be ok just abandoning them.
Would it be ok if your stories got archived somewhere and someone got to read them, say in ten years, but there’s no information as to author or location? Or would it be better for your privacy/anonymity if they weren’t available ever again to anyone?
I guess the answer depends on what you want the outcome to be.