How do I permanently delete my account?
Before deleting your account, you may want to log in and download a copy of your information (like your photos and posts) from Facebook.
After your account has been deleted, you won’t be able to retrieve anything you’ve added.
To permanently delete your account:
- Click
in the top right of Facebook.
- Select Settings & Privacy > Settings.
- Click Your Facebook Information in the left column.
- Click Deactivation and Deletion.
- Choose Permanently Delete Account, then click Continue to Account Deletion.
- Click Delete Account, enter your password and then click Continue.
Note : to protect your privacy and security I recommend that after you have downloaded your data , you then change your name in facebook, manually defriend everyone on your list (if practical) and manual delete your photos and posts ( if practical) I would then like random pages and groups that you are not interested in. The idea of this step is to turn your profile from valuable data into garbage of no value and far away from any algorithms understanding on your true interests.
Remember to run off notifications on facebook app and also messenger and then delete both from your device.
On facebook you are the product.
Once deleted you will probably go through a day of euphoria and then a withdrawal phase of wanting to check on that post or like or bit of gossip, if you can simply avoid facebook for 30days you will realise you have wasted so much of your free time.
If it’s been less than 30 days since you initiated the deletion, you can cancel your account deletion. DO NOT CANCEL IT .
After 30 days, your account and all your information will be permanently deleted, and you won’t be able to retrieve your information.
It may take up to 90 days from the beginning of the deletion process to delete all the things you’ve posted.
While we’re deleting this information, it’s not accessible to other people using Facebook.
Copies of your information may remain after the 90 days in backup storage that we use to recover in the event of a disaster, software error, or other data loss event. We may also keep your information for things like legal issues, terms violations, or harm prevention efforts. Learn more about our Data Policy.
In summary you can delete your profile but they wont delete your data. you can turn that data held by facebook into garbage by following the garbage step by removing all actual friends and posts and photos and replacing with random nonsense.
