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How do I delete my Facebook account?
By admin | April 14, 2008
You can do 3 things with your Facebook account. Deactivate it, delete it and all content and/or ensure that it is permanently removed from the Facebook servers for good. This article will show you how to do all of this.
1. Deactivate Your Facebook Account
This takes the shortest amount of time but does not actually delete your account. It deactivates it and hangs around until you have a sudden drop in will power and login again. It then reactivates your account with all your information, photos, messages and comments intact. If you want to be a sucker and follow this route, here are the steps you need to follow:
a. Login to your Facebook account and then click on account on the top right hand corner of the page.
b. When the new page appears, leave it on the Settings tab and scroll to the bottom. Click on the deactivate link.
c. You will be asked to confirm the deactivation and asked to give a reason why. Choose whatever you feel like and hit the Deactivate button.
d. You will be shown this message. And that’s it.
2. Delete Your Facebook Account
a. Make sure you have the email address of all your friends if you want to continue email contact with them. You need to stop using the Facebook messages. Ensure they have your email address too.
b. Delete ALL sent and received messages.
c. Remove ALL of your friends from your friends list.
d. Delete ALL comments/posts on all of your walls (SuperWall, FunWall, The Wall, etc).
e. Delete ALL Comments and Posts you’ve made on other peoples Walls.
f. Delete ALL your photos - this includes all profile photos and those in your albums.
g. Leave ALL your networks and groups.
h. If you administer any groups, transfer the admin rights to someone else.
i. Clear every last bit of information from your profile.
j. Deactivate your account as per the above.
3. Permanently Delete ALL account information from Facebook Servers
You can request Facebook to have your information completely wiped from their servers.
They stress that you need to remove all profile content before theye can do this. Follow steps a. to i. above but do not deactivate yet. Facebook may come back to you saying there is still content for you to delete. If there is and you have already deactivated, you will need to go through the reactivation process to follow their demands.
Once you have cleared your account, let them know and they’ll take care of the rest. To let them know follow these steps:
a. Login to your account, scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the Help link.
b. On the page that shows up, Click on Privacy and Security.
c. Then click on Privacy
d. A list of questions will appear. Scroll all the way to the bottom. The 2nd last entry will be ‘I want to permanently delete my account’. Click on it.
e. A bunch of words worth nothing to you will come up. Towards the end of the 2nd paragraph, click on the link ‘this form’.
f. You will be presented with the below. Tick the box Remove my account from Facebook and click on the Submit button.
g. You will then get an email letting you know that the Facebook team will get back to you. They should get back to you within a week. Once they confirm that your account is deleted, try logging in to Facebook again. You will know that it is permanently deleted if you don’t get asked to reactivate your account.
Voila! Congratulations for getting your life back!!
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May 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
[...] So löscht man seinen Facebook-Account. Echt mal ein Skandal, was für einen Affentanz man vollführen muss, denn das geht weißgott nicht einfach mal so, nein. [...]
admin: I tried a free translator to find out what the above meant. Seems to be something about an ape dance. I agree, Facebook does make you dance in order to get rid of them.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Thanks! Works like a dream - received the email (that they received my request) within seconds - now I just have to wait for their confirmation my account has been completely deleted.
admin: no worries, glad to help.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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July 5th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
After 8 months of unsolicited spam and other shite from so-called friends…it was getting bizarre and I decided to kill FB account. It was tragicomic receiving emails from those same “friends” asking why am I getting off after I let them know of my intentions.
In any case…thanks for giving us this neat little run-down on getting rid of that pest.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Thanks for publishing this guide! Facebook certainly makes it difficult to do something as simple as deleting your profile.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:15 am
Thanks a lot for this, I deactivated my face book account yesterdyay, after having sent a motivation letter to all my contacts, but I didn’t understand it was not actually deleted..I am going through this all process now and let you know…thanks again,:virtual life is great without facebook…
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October 9th, 2008 at 1:52 am
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October 24th, 2008 at 6:54 am
I’m deleting my account. All my friends think I’m crazy, but I just want to see what it’s like, I’ve had FB for so long, it’ll feel weird.
November 19th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
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November 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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December 20th, 2008 at 5:08 am
If I do all the things you said, will it delete, for example, my status comments, or posted items comments? I had myspace too, deleted it some time ago and they actually deleted everything I ever wrote, photo comments and profile comments, all of it! It would be great if facebook did the same thing, but I have a feeling they don’t delete everything…
December 28th, 2008 at 1:36 am
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January 14th, 2009 at 3:08 am
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January 19th, 2009 at 2:16 am
What notice do your “friends” get when you delete your account. Do you just disappear or does facebook broadcast some kind of message?
February 17th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
[...] If you’ve been reading this blog you already know that I hate FACEBOOK. It’s not the social networking part I dislike. As a matter of fact, I think it’s kinda’ cool to connect with family & friends online. Millions are doing it, but at what cost? Check out the news article below. If you’ve already joined & want to delete your account… pray. After reading the news today, I wonder if my fictitious profile will ever be erased. It’s a time-consuming endeavor if you’ve posted any pictures, comments, or anyone has posted comments on your wall. I know from experience, now. It’s a real pain. If you do decide to attempt a leave at Facebook, you can try this: http://antisocial.nectareen.com/how-do-i-delete-my-facebook-account/ [...]
February 19th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Hi, I’ve just read the news about, that in Terms and Conditions in facebook was changed in order to let us know that all the information about your profile is going to be as their own property :O! yes that’s right, 2 days after, Mark gave an apology and the terms were fixed.
So i was thinking that it must be a site to keep us warned about all this “new-age-data-stealing”, started all by google. I’ve found some interesting info about that, and I can share it with you.
Regards, Fabian
February 20th, 2009 at 9:13 am
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March 12th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I want to get rid of all the F@!k@ng embarrasing and irritating pictures that the rest of my family and my friends have put on facebook, but i don’t want a g@d!@mn facebook account. My email inbox is daily flooded with messages from facebook telling me that people have put pictures of me on their pages, and it gives me a link to the image, but when I follow it it tells me that to see it i need a account.
I still don’t understand why I can’t remove the pictures without having to jump throgh hoops.
F@ck you zuckerburg.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:53 am
bonne chance de gommer votre compte avec facebook, je le trouve surnois, et je le dis parce que je viens essayer de l’effacer, et jais vous dire, c’est pas de la tarte, il a fallu tenter presque trois fois au moins, et chaque fois que c’est deactivé, il m’annonce qu’il me faut “login” une fois t’es branché, ah voila, c’est reactivé, what a pain about this site.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Thank you.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Thanks for this! The not-so-subtle issue is ownership. It is Facebook’s website, not yours. It is not your profile, it is Facebook’s profile about you. You only have very limited ability to contribute and only at Facebook’s pleasure. Facebook has absolute control and therefore practical ownership of everything on Facebook, including your identity, associations and relationships. Facebook is not your friend. As a structure for social interaction privately owned social networking is worse than medaeval. Our civil rights and liberties on Facebook are zero. Shut your Facebook!
April 17th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Oh God I m so relieved!!!! I thought I was the only freak in my world to want to clost the FB account! I am so happy to be able to delete it………God I HATED FB it totally screwed me up.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:06 am
hey all
have “stupid” question..if you delete your facebook account, do your pictures automatically disappear from your friends and family account??????
once I deleted my account, and came back after 5 months..now I can not find my photos on my family members accounts….weird…
thanks!!!
May 1st, 2009 at 10:34 am
This will be incredibly helpful when I finally pluck up the conviction to delete my stupid FB account like I keep threatening to do.
May 11th, 2009 at 8:03 am
i agree with karsz, im really happy that im not the only one that wants to delete the FB account, the only thing i have to do is get the courage to do what i’ve been thinking of doing for such a long time. i got it because its the only way to keep in touch with some of my friends who ONLY use FB but it takes up too much of my time and i already have too many things to do. i think i should delete it soon :S
May 12th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Thx much 4 dis! I hated my account s ppl kept doin stupid n’ ridiculous things….:-)
May 19th, 2009 at 3:09 am
I never received a confirmation email. could it be because I have opted out of receiving emails from facebook, or do they send it anyway since its a deletion. In which case my account will not be deleted after all.