Facebook makes it pretty easy to deactivate your account which will temporarily hide your information. However, if you want to permanently remove your information, the 'permanent delete' option is much harder to find. This article will cover two easy ways to erase your Facebook account so you can quit Facebook forever.
Before You Start
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1 Remove Facebook Connect logins. Many sites, like Digg.com and Meetup.com, allow signup and login using Facebook Connect -- List of Facebook Connect sites (may not be complete or current.) If you have accounts on such sites, go to each of them, and:
- Make sure you have a way to login that does not involve Facebook Connect (you will most likely have to create a username and password on the site if you haven't already.)
- Logout of the account, then log back in using the alternate method (not using Facebook Connect), ensuring that you will be able to access the account after your Facebook account is deleted.
- 2 Remove all Linked Accounts so that you won't accidentally login to Facebook.
Delete Your Account
- 1 Copy and paste https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account once you have logged on. This screen will present itself:
- 2 Click "Submit" and follow instructions. There will be a simple password and a Captcha spam check to enter in. Captcha spam checks are to make sure you are the real owner of your account and not an automated program.
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3 Do not login or connect with your Facebook account. You will receive an email saying that your account will be deleted in 14 days. Any interaction with the account during that period could prevent it from being deleted, so for 14 days:
- Do not try to login to your Facebook account; you may want to clear your browser cache and delete your cookies so that you don't login inadvertently.
- Do not click the Facebook Share or Like button on any site you visit.
- Do not use Facebook Connect to login to or signup on any site (see Before You Start, above.)
- 4 Wait and watch. At the end of 14 days, all of your posts, comments, info, etc., will be permanently made inaccessible on Facebook.
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