Page insights: After building, implementing and updating your social media strategy, one main thing will matter to you… Results. The way Facebook currently exports your insights doesn't provide you with an accurate visibility on the page's activities. How can it take into consideration users who are no longer on Facebook? This doesn't make sense. So with the removal of the deactivated accounts, the insights will be automatically updated generating more accurate results. Yay!On another hand, it will make it easier for businesses orsocial media agencies using lookalike tools to find audiences similar to the ones who actively "like" their page. Double yay!

Consistency: As you might have already realized, "comments and likes" coming from deactivated accounts have disappeared. The moment a user removes his accounts, all the engagement made on page or individual posts will also be removed. This upcoming Facebook update will create consistency in the data as it will also discard the users.

As for the number of page likes you might be losing, Facebook declared a "small dip". But how much is a small dip? Actually, it depends on the number of page likes you already have. If your Facebook page has a few hundreds, you might not feel the loss. However, if it has hundreds of thousands or even millions, the small dip might be more obvious.

Keep in mind that this update only affects manually deactivated accounts and not users who have been inactive for a while but still have their accounts. On a later period, if deactivated accounts are reactivated, Facebook will directly re-add it to the page likes.