Asking for…umm…a friend. How long before Meta deletes your content after you request to delete your account?

I'm going with .. never.

Yup, them "shadow profiles" will become sentient one day
Fuck! Thanks. Anyway my…ummm…friend can have his meta footprint deleted?
- Unless someone feels like breaking into a datacenter (and likely several cold backup facilities) and mechanically wiping data, that shit is there forever. Facebook deletes nothing.
- If your friend is an EU citizen, they might have some luck with a GDPR request to delete all their data.
  
  They also might not. Meta technically would have to comply, but there is no real way to know if they did.
- Same response as the EU but for California.
- Don't they ressurect dead accounts, and use the ai to post randomly
That's illegal in Europe.
- And?
- It's legal if they irreversibly anonymise it.
  
  So the content you created will still be used to train AI with no consent from or payment to you.

"Your" content? I seem to remember that everything you post is their (meta's) content.

Why would they delete their own content?

Where did you get that information from? Their ToS say nothing like that. Stop spreading fake news.

When you delete your account as a European they are legally required to delete everything associated with you or that you created.

Please don't spread fake news without providing a source.
- It is in their ToS actually...
  
  Instagram
  
  Facebook

They need the data to train theur AI. They will not delete. They may glag that the account is now deleted and add this to the data fed to the AI.

Even for European users? That seems illegal.
- It is illegal if you send a delete request.
  
  The question is here, if 'delete account' is the same as asking Meta to delete all data in the regard of GDPR. My guess is, its not.
  
  There's also no way they will retrain their AI without your data, just because you told them to.
They don't need the data perpetually to train their AI. Just dump it once into the black box and be done with it - no need to save it for even a second. Of course, if they want to train and re-train, and perhaps build ad profiles, that's a different matter.

If you realy want to delete your data, try a client like redact.dev that batch overwrites all your posts and pictures.

It should be 30 days

And if you attempt to sign back in, or open anything that auto signs you in, it will cancel the 30 day countdown to delete and restore your account.

I went without Facebook for about 7 years. I went through the account deletion process. After meeting my now wife, she wanted to be able to send me stuff she sees on there. W/E I'll just use my old email address and spin up a new account... Low and behold, my account was still there... I went through and manually deleted all of my posts, chats, liked pages, everything. My account is now just a place for my wife to share reels.

I don't like Facebook but I have found it convenient to be able to use the marketplace again.

Thats cute, but no. Its a company with profitmargins