To the fact that]@ it's rather difficult to truly Deactivate Account Facebook Permanently, even when you desire to. Appears that the company wants to hang on to your information even when you state you're all done, so while you can 'deactivate' your account, Facebook will cheerily email you afterwards saying "we've saved your data and you can reactivate whenever you're prepared. We miss you currently!"

A bit frustrating from a privacy point of view, for sure, but I wish to believe that after a certain quantity of time deactivated accounts are wiped from the information storage, though that might just be wishful thinking in the 21st Century, the age of information mining.

 

Deactivate Account Facebook Permanently

I can step you through every part of this procedure since I regrettably had to deactivate my daddy's account after he died. No point in keeping it around and while there is a way to "memorialize" somebody's presence by having their account remain, that simply appears odd to me so we didn't go down that path. Curious? Find out more here: memorialize a deceased individual's Facebook account.

Strange.

To deactivate your own account, start by going to "Settings", then "Security":.

See that last link, in a different typeface and color? Click on "Deactivate your account".

You'll get here:.

See all those factors for leaving? Facebook has responses for practically all of them that try to keep you around, handy Frequently asked questions on how to handle a hacked account, too much email, how to find out Facebook, time management, and so on. In fact, it appears like the only method you can actually * stop * Facebook is to choose "Other".

Do that, click "Verify" if you make certain you desire to continue, and ...

Makes sense. However then a click on "Deactivate Now" and ...

Yeah, it's their website, not yours, so you have to support and supply a reason.

I believe you can just say "Fed up" in that box. I imply, what are they going to do, say your reason isn't legit and you cannot deactivate??

Lastly, when you do get things lined up for their process, you'll see this:.

Here's exactly what I discover curious: I examined "decide out of future e-mail" and Facebook nonetheless sent out an email message with instructions on ways to reactivate the account. Apparently "leave me alone" isn't really quite clear enough:.

I can only hope and presume that the account is now properly shut off and won't appear in people's friend lists, on searches, and so on. Which's how it's done.