Oooh, IIRC it dawned on me about the time that facebook insisted all users have their actual names on their pages. (I can’t remember when that was, maybe 2012 or 2013? Not sure, it was a while ago however.)

That was the red flag for me.

It was also the point when I deleted my posts and comments on fb (it took months to get it all) then unfriended everyone and logged out for a month. When I logged back in I had a handful of comments on the (ex-)friends pages that popped up, since the feed will scour the servers to show you content on your home page, so I re-friended them, deleted the comments, logged out and waited another month. After the last time I logged in (I did four deletion waves of comments) fb was showing me totally random strangers “I Might Know…”

Perfect.

I then changed up my primary email on FB to my yahoo throwaway, logged out for another month, logged in with the new email and made a totally fake name for myself… Who I am does not exist on facebook, nor are any friends or family listed as friends and no one can see anything on my page.