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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 they 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!!
Now that you have all that free time you should learn how to Get Things Done! because it’s Action Time! Or maybe you want to become a musician - for this you will need cheap guitars and a guitar stand.
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May 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
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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 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.
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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 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
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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
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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.
August 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Help ! I cant even login to the frustating web site called face book, It ignores all cries for help to change my password , what do I do to get this monkey off my back, I hate face book and want it out of my life………..
August 9th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Angelo, I have same problem ! no email confirmation with a new password, are these people in need of a copy of “Computer help for dummies?” I will gladly send them a copy free of charge…….
August 19th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Awesome instructions!! I deleted all that crap, photos, comments, posts etc etc… felt so freaking freeing..
I wanna have real connections w/ people, not some flaky screen “friendships” taht mean nothing.
Glad I found the link and I officially asked FB to completely delete my acct.
Thanks!!
Happy real life everyone!
August 24th, 2009 at 12:55 am
i want it perm deleted
August 24th, 2009 at 12:56 am
i no longwant this
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:22 am
I want to delete Face book account
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
Please delete Face book
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:28 am
delete account
September 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
..my fb account was translated into new language cuz i accept the language translation..
..i am more comfortable in an ENGLISH FORM..
..PLEASE HELP ME,I WISH MY FB ACCOUNT TO BE BACK IN IT’S ORIGINAL FORM OF LANGUAGE,which is ENGLISH..
..PLEASE SEND ME AN E-MAIL REGARDING THIS PROBLEM..{ j3_73@yahoo.com }..
..I DON’T KNOW WHERE WILL I ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS COMPLICATIONS..
..I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE..
..THANKS IN ADVANCE AND MORE POWER TO FACEBOOK..
..GOD BLESS TO ALL THE STUFF IN THIS SITE..
September 12th, 2009 at 12:51 am
please cancel now my facebook
September 12th, 2009 at 12:52 am
cancel facebook
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
i wont delete my facebook account.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I just deleted, or temporarily deleted, my facebook account but still sit on the fence as to whether it was the right thing to do or not. On the one hand, I see FB as an invasion of privacy and get this creepy feeling that I am being judged all the time by other people on the site. On the other hand, I have friends that use FB as their main way to get in touch and make plans. Sometimes, I wish the whole thing never existed in the first place.
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October 17th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Cya later facebook!!! Thanks to this guide I can now breathe again like Toni Braxton.
October 24th, 2009 at 4:14 am
That should give me back a couple of hours per day
November 12th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I just want to be off facebook
November 12th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I want to permenently delete my account
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 am
It still won’t let me delete it!
November 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
I want to get rid of Facebook
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Criminy! I never really wanted to be on Facebook. I had to register just to poke around, then it happened. People found me! I had to delete the account to go back to a normal life. GOD forbid I would ever talk to my friends to find out what they were doing or feeling.
December 20th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
i want to delete my facebook acount and i did it
December 24th, 2009 at 6:00 am
plzz deleteing my facebook.com cuz ever body is so mean to me n i keep losting my friends
December 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
FACEBOOK IS (A DIGITAL) HOTEL CALIFORNIA! They just keep you in because Facebook will collapse as soon as it would be (too) easy to leave. Bad for their business. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN and start living a real life! Walter from Holland.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Seriously? I’m sick of facebook because it’s a wast of time. Then I find out I need to go through all this shit to permanately delete it?
You’ve gotta be kidding me!
January 10th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Thank You,
yes Thank you for all your hard work in helping me deleting this bull shit of nothing but waste of time, identity theft, high blood pressure, dumbass people, rhetorical humans of FACEBOOK!!!
I seriously cant thank you enough if you have a girlfriend tell her to kiss you for me :PPPP…. THANK YOU!!!
facebook is the gayest thing I ever encountered and the people who sign for this trick are ediots and retard it because you will loose your online privacy and others will be profiting off you…. also I thank you for not have to deal with my stupid friends who I had over the internet and that I actually know in the real world (( I will block them in the real world also)) FUCK FACEBOOK!!!
this website should be sued because its gathering private information that a hacker would grab by a click of a button where before that the hacker would have to go through all kinds of programs to reach our emails!!!
sorry to all that rubbish I said but I was happy to create a facebook account but than found out its the worst thing I ever done on the internet because its nothhing than a waste of time and getting into arguments with stupid friends that you wouldnt talk to in real life XXD…. DONT DO THE SAME MISTAKE I DID PEEEPS !!
I wrote in a hurry because of how happy I am hahaa and yea lastly fuck facebook…. peace out ppl and thank you admin :D!
January 10th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Thanks a lot
January 11th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Up until a few days ago Facebook was my second best friend. Now, after a relationship gone bad, I actually fear for my safety, courtesy of Facebook.
Thanks for posting this. It looks like it will take some time to remove everything; but I’m definitely outta there…
January 13th, 2010 at 4:01 am
Thanks for being so thorough in how to actually delete Facebook-it’s a great feeling! Let’s remember how important it is to have real friends vs virtual 5.0!
January 27th, 2010 at 1:28 am
delete me now please because i don’t want to be back here
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:16 am
Delete it!!!!!!!!!
February 7th, 2010 at 5:25 am
thank you so much, fb almost killed me, i was stressed!! i was scared!!! thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
February 10th, 2010 at 4:47 am
Thank you for this wonderful service to mankind! I am glad to be “unplugged”. Thank you.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:10 am
please please please delete my facebook i only been on it a day what a load of tosh
February 15th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I got on facebook because I thought I would find friends, I found old high school enemies with sly, candy coated words, got hooked into drama, and lost my confidence. I am so happy I am done now. They will just have to find some other person to play with. I even have the ones I thought I could trust sending me attachments that they used on facebook, but I have email control, DELETE do not open. Freedom!
February 16th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Marvelous! I also found Facebook to be a nightmare. It seems permeated with illiterate, odd people. People who don’t seem to respect other people’s feelings or their privacy. I was honestly shocked that strangers would post some of the revealing and odd photos to “other strangers” and think nothing of it. Helloh, the world is filled with criminals who want to hurt others, did they not get “that memo”. Anyway, I too, am glad to be off of it. I didn’t give it too much of my time. Figured it out for what it was rather quickly. I don’t think it’s antisocial to want to be off facebook. I think it’s “sane” and “logical” and incredibly “smart”.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:13 am
Thanks for the info on how to delete my FB account. I thought it would ge a good thing at first to sign up and find old/new friends. Now I am wanting to just get rid of the whole thing. I have ex boyfriends that think it’s fun to post comments about me and I also don’t like the phone number requests and other flirting that goes on. I have learned that FB will cause problems in your real realtionships. My boyfriend does not have a FB account but saw mine and got really pissed about all the crap people put on there. It was good to find some old friends but i think i got all I needed out of FB. Adios FB!
February 25th, 2010 at 7:39 am
I have had my account deleted (14 day wait) three times and twice it has been re activated, NOT by me. How do I deal with this?
February 26th, 2010 at 2:40 am
I never even registered for Facebook!! And no one ever seemed to think it was weird that somehow an account appeared for me. I know they stole my inofrmation from LinkedIn because it was using my work email.
I set up LinkedIn to keep up with the job market in my profession and that’s it. I would never register for FB and if I did I would not use my freakin’ work email! Criminals. I hope this delete works.
February 26th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I Like face book but there is to many drama queens on here
March 6th, 2010 at 10:11 am
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