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    How To: Delete your Facebook account

    By Scott Younker | Digital Trends – Tue, Dec 6, 2011

    If you’re tired of Facebook or just want a refresh and a restart on the social networking website deleting your account seems like a pretty easy process. Unfortunately, it can be a little bit complicated. 

    One note before we begin: It takes 14 days for Facebook to officially delete your account. If you log into your account before those 14 days are up you’ll need to restart the deletion process. This is the most complicated part of the process. 

    1. Make a list of any sites that you log into using the Facebook connect feature. This means any site that isn’t Facebook itself. For example, you can use Facebook to log into Digital Trends using the same password and account name that you use for Facebook. You’ll need to go each of those sites and close your accounts there. If you log into any of them over the 14 day period it counts and you’ll have to start over. You can always recreate the accounts later.

    2. Visit the Facebook Account Deletion page. If the site asks you to log in, do so. You’ll be taken to a page titled “Delete My Account”. There are two buttons click the button labeled “Submit”. 

    3. You will now be asked, “You are about to permanently delete your account. Are you sure?” If you are sure, you’ll need to enter your password. There’s also one of those security boxes where you enter the random text to ensure your humanity. Do that. When you’re done hit the button labeled “OK”. 

    4. After you confirm the deletion, do nothing. Again, the process takes 14 days before the account is deleted. If you log into during that period your profile is instantly reinstated and you’ll need to start over. If you don’t login during those 14 days afterwards your account will be gone.

    5. You should receive a note to your e-mail from Facebook telling you that you’ve initiated the deletion process. If you don’t receive this e-mail it’s possible that the process may not have begun and you’ll need to try again.

    If you’re creating a new Facebook account we recommend you just login to that. It’ll keep you from going to your old one so you won’t be distracted by it. 

    This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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    30 comments

    • eric y
      eric y  •  Makati City, Philippines  •  5 mths ago
      Lets all delete our facebook account. Goodbye Mark Zuckerberg!
      • Anonymous
        Anonymous 5 mths ago
        More people need this kind of attitude! The site is a freakin' parasite.
      • Facebook_h8tr
        Facebook_h8tr 5 mths ago
        I couldn't agree more!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  San Diego, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Whats Facebook?
    • ؟
      ؟  •  5 mths ago
      Always use an alias on Faxebook!
      ........ like you all do on Yahoo!
    • winbills
      winbills  •  5 mths ago
      cancel twitter and
      facebook............i am tired of every web page i look at
      wasting my bandwidth trying to access twitter and facebook

      cancel your facebook and twitter accounts and
      block their cookies

      we pay for our bandwidth, let us decide how we use it

      and while we are it....and why is every web page we look at trying to access twitter and facebook?

      you would never illegally spy on us, would u now?,

      george w bush, richard nixon.....and they are the only ones that got caught..........
    • Thomas
      Thomas  •  Kansas City, United States  •  5 mths ago
      way to complicated - delete should be immediate and no other sites should matter in the deletion
    • Duetto
      Duetto  •  5 mths ago
      You cannot delete your account. I did so and after logging on it accidentally after 6 months, poof! It's still there. 6 months! I think that's more than 14 days. .
      • JT
        JT 5 mths ago
        Same thing here...deleted it and months later checked to make sure and there it was. Facebook will destroy us all,
      • Angel A
        Angel A 5 mths ago
        OMG!! So Im not the only one! I didnt wait 6 months, but it was FOR SURE at least one month, and I checked and it was still there! YOU CANNOT DELETE YOUR FB, like, WHATSO freakin EVER! =[
      • Baldbob
        Baldbob 5 mths ago
        Several weeks after I 'deleted' my facebook account, I tried to log in... and it was still there.

        I sent an email informing facebook that unless my account was permanently deleted and a confirmation email was sent to me indicating that was the case, that I was turning their email (which told me that the account had been deleted when it had not) over to my lawyer.

        I received an email from them within 24 hours stating that the account had been deleted. Subsequently, I was no longer able to log in using my former account/password.

        Don't put up with their $#!*.
    • winbills
      winbills  •  5 mths ago
      yahoo offers the same exact service as facebook.......now why would yahoo advertise facebook on their own web page.............after all it would be like mcdonalds allowing burger kings advertising on their own stores walls

      something stinks in denmark
      • Al
        Al 5 mths ago
        Your understanding of the internet is the problem. This isn't a Yahoo story. It was posted by Digital Trends. It's a blog.
        Yahoo has as much responsibility for this story as they have for your comment.
    • REDSHIFT
      REDSHIFT  •  5 mths ago
      It would be better if you told us how to delete someone elses Facebook account...
    • Apollo
      Apollo  •  Seattle, United States  •  5 mths ago
      delete all pictures, change name to Mark Zukerberg....then delete account. Go to Diaspora....they dont track you!
    • nick s
      nick s  •  Tampa, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Oh please, I deleted one account and after accidently logging into it with wrong email it reactivated, and this was after nearly six months! You don't control facebook, it controls you.
    • none
      none  •  Orlando, United States  •  5 mths ago
      you don't delete Facebook, it deletes you idiots
    • Itz Me
      Itz Me  •  San Jose, United States  •  5 mths ago
      But is it 14 business days, or 14 calendar days??? Opps... you logged in too soon, we still own you.... start over.
    • CommunityNBC
      CommunityNBC  •  Minneapolis, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Delete all of your photos, as many posts as you can, unfriend everyone and unlike your groups. It takes some time but it helps. If there's an "X" button anyware, use it. I say this because I am aware of the tough removal process. It's much smarter to remove as much as you can from your profile. After that, you can try to delete your account.
    • Christopher
      Christopher  •  5 mths ago
      Isn't it kind of RICO-like for Yahoo, who offers competitive features to Facebook, to run articles on how to disable their features or delete their accounts? Should be none of Yahoo's business.
      • Al
        Al 5 mths ago
        This isn't a yahoo story. It was posted by Digital Trends. It's a blog.
    • DUB
      DUB  •  5 mths ago
      I changed email address, and pooff, Facebook was history. It's like Hotel California; you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave. Horsefeathers!
    • Max Fubar
      Max Fubar  •  Springfield, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Facebook, the digital record of actitivity that can and will be used in a court of law against you.
    • Liberal 101
      Liberal 101  •  5 mths ago
      Oh, so you want to delete your account Hah, not so fast my little pretty. First you must say you love this site (even if you don't) then you have go out and get me a thousand new accounts, then and only then we'll think about letting you go. Ya see, I own you now my pretty. And I didn't even have to pay to get you. Ah hahahahahahahah !!!!! I'm always there my pretty. You will never escape my grasp, not until I have no use for you that is. So sit back and enjoy the ride, it's all free, for me at least , Ah hahahahahahaha. We'll be seeing/talking and following very soon pretty, bye bye for now..................................................
      There's your FaceBook for ya. You wanted it, well now you got it. We are all caught up in this technological mess. Can't live with it or without it now. I love it but it also sucks, and all at that the same time mine you, go figure.............
    • Charlie Tuna
      Charlie Tuna  •  Tacoma, United States  •  5 mths ago
      They save all of your information for future use by others before supposedly deleting your account. I never had it or never will and I'll tell you why: Facebook is easily hacked. Like the founder said, don't put anything in Facebook you wouldn't want seen on the front page of the [most popular] newspaper. You drones who think Facebook is secure, yeah...
    • A Yahoo! User  •  San Diego, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Facebook SUX
    • A Yahoo! User  •  San Jose, United States  •  5 mths ago
      All you fools that think you can delete facebook... you cant! I am glad I never started one.
      • DUB
        DUB 5 mths ago
        Wanna bet? They have my previous email address. Good for them since I can't use it any more----and they can't use me!
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