How To Cancel A Facebook Account: Deep in the bowels of the Facebook help center, you can discover the LINK that will completely erase your Facebook account.
How To Cancel A Facebook Account
Prior to I show you the web link, nevertheless, please review the following meticulously:
Removing your Facebook will erase every one of your account details and also eliminate your capability to login to the service. No images, pals, messages, status updates, etc. According to Facebook, when your account completely erases, there is no other way to restore your account or your information. Keeping that in mind, please move forward checking out all big as well as fine print.
So let's begin on completely deleting your profile.
You'll be asked to verify. Enter your password as well as resolve the CAPTCHA. Click Okay to proceed.
All done, sort of.
Ways To Make Certain Facebook Completely Deletes your Account
Even after verifying the deletion of your account, Facebook will just deactivate it, leaving you 14 days to log back in and terminate the whole removal. Sigh.
I understand exactly what you're believing: "Truly? Fourteen days to remove my information?"
I completed the scavenger hunt as well as located the DELETE web link.
I saw the BIG RED MESSAGE warning me my account would certainly be completely removed.
I entered my password.
I assisted convert a book for GOOGLE by fixing the Captcha puzzle.
Last but not least, I clicked the Okay switch
What part of erase my account do not you understand Facebook? Maybe you believed I was joking? Or intoxicated? But if that holds true, why the five actions above? Yes, Regis, that's my last answer! Delete my account!
I believe it's very noticeable by now Facebook doesn't consider you a client from a customer service point-of-view. Facebook is in the data service-- even more especially, your information, and also it will certainly go to excellent lengths to keep information including your employment, school history, buddies, network, images, marked face, etc. which it took care of to accumulate from you for many years in its social web. The 2 Week moratorium is Facebook's last-ditch attempt to entice you somehow back right into the solution either accidentally or from some subconscious Facebook dependency in order to terminate the account cancellation procedure.
With this in mind, here are a few pointers making certain you do not "mistakenly" log in to Facebook hence terminating your account nuke procedure.
Clear your browser cache as well as delete all cookies-- Firefox/ Net Explorer/ Secure Wipe w/CCleaner
Erase the Facebook Application on your iPhone (don't worry, it's free if you ever before wish to add it once again ...).
Avoid clicking the Facebook Share switch on any kind of sites you check out such as the button below (sorry, couldn't stand up to ).
5/5/2010 UPDATE: Visitor UXP made a good point in his remark below reminding me that Facebook is likewise made use of by lots of people for solitary sign on for commenting on blogs or logging right into web sites (like digg.com for instance.) Various other instances-- Facebook chat clients like Pidgin or Adium. If you make use of these solutions, upload a talk about a blog using Facebook Attach, or log in to a website using your Facebook account throughout your 14-day waiting duration, and also your FB account will be reactivated. Ouch ... that is going to injure if your only Creds on DIGG.com or various other sites is your Facebook account.
Currently, I can not make any promises that besides this job (and also 2 Week naturally) Facebook will remove your account since it's not my business. This is, however, the process that it set out on its web site (if you managed to track it down). All the best; however, you'll need it.
