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How to Delete Your Facebook Account | PCWorld

Want out of Facebook? We'll show you how to completely delete your account--or just put things on hold for a while.

         By Justin Phelps, PCWorld            Nov 3, 2011 3:00 pm

If you're sick of Facebook, you can cancel your account. Once you've  deleted your Facebook account, you will never be able to log in to it  again, and all of the personal and contact information you stored there  will be gone. If you just want to disappear for a while, you can opt to  suspend your account temporarily. In this article I'll explain how to  permanently delete your Facebook account, as well as how to temporarily  deactivate it.

 Permanently Deleting Your Facebook Account

 1. Log in to your Facebook account.
 2. Open Account Settings.
 
 3. Under Linked Accounts, click Edit.  Remove all linked accounts. Why? If you log in to Facebook within two  weeks of permanently deleting your account, your account will not be  deleted. If you are logged in to any of the accounts listed under Linked  Accounts, you are automatically logged in to Facebook. Therefore, you  should remove all linked accounts to ensure that the deletion process  goes smoothly.
 4. Open Privacy Settings.
 5. Open Apps, Games and Websites.
 
 6. Under 'Apps you use', click Remove. In  the list, remove all apps, games, and websites. Again, taking this step  helps the deletion process go as smoothly as possible.
 7. if you want to save your profile data on your hard drive, now is the time to do it. Open Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook data.
 8. Head to the Facebook Help center to initiate the permament deletion of your account.  You can search the Facebook Help center for "delete account," and you  will find the same link. If you're sure that you want to proceed, click Submit.

 Important Notes

 For two weeks after you delete your account, Facebook retains your  data in case you wish to reverse your decision. If you don't log in to  Facebook for two weeks, your account will be permanently deleted.

 Immediately after deleting your account, clear the cache of the  browser(s) you use to log in to Facebook. Doing this is another way to  make sure that you don't accidentally log in to your Facebook account or  use it in the two weeks after deleting it.

 Facebook provides the following disclaimer about deleting your  account: "Copies of some material (photos, notes, etc.) may remain in  our servers for technical reasons, but this material is disassociated  from any personal identifiers and completely inaccessible to other  people using Facebook." In other words, your data could remain on  Facebook's servers for a while, but it is no longer identifiable as your  data, nor is anyone able to search for it. Eventually, your old data  will be overwritten and forever deleted.

 If you accidentally use your Facebook account within two weeks after  deleting it, you'll need to initiate the deletion process again.

 Temporarily Deactivating Your Account

 1. Log in to your Facebook account.
 2. Open Account Settings.
 3. Open Security.
 4. Click Deactivate your account. Your  account will no longer be viewable, but it will remain intact. Simply  log in to Facebook again to reactivate your account.