A friend of my wife and I, came to us wanting to know how she can get into a old Facebook account that she forgot the password of. She created it back when FB was first introduced to the public and It had messages and pics from a family member that passed, so we wanted to help her if we could.
She told us she already attempted to contact FB with no success so I suggested she send a password reset request to whatever email account she used to setup the FB account, but she claimed that account no longer exited on Y! and didn't have a phone tired to the account which made other recovery options unusable I wasn't entirely sure this was even possible.
I know that after a while an account may become inactive, and you need to re-activate it, but complete removal seemed uncommon. However I also know that Y! has had its issues with security and I remember they started deleting really old inactive accounts to cut down on hacked accounts. So lucky our friend did remember the email address she used and we just recreated it in Y! She sent the pw reset email, and was able to get in. An interesting use case,
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