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Alex Noudelman’s Guide To Permanently Deleting Facebook
Here’s our guide to permanently deleting your Facebook account. Remember, deleting your account is very different from actually deactivating your account. You can deactivate your account at any time, and when you decide to return everything will still be there as you left it. While your account is deactivated, people on Facebook will not be able to search for you, but some information like messages you’ve sent can be seen. If you permanently delete your account, you will not be able to regain access to your account information ever again!
- Take note of all sites that you logged into using Facebook connect. That means any site that is not Facebook itself but lets you log in using the same Facebook username and password. Once you’ve identified every one of those sites, go to each of them and close the accounts manually. If you log in to any of those sites during two week cancellation period your account will be immediately reactivated and you’ll have to start all over again.
- Save everything from your account that there is chance you will need later. Depending on your needs, this may include contact information, photos, personal profile content etc. You will lose access to all of this when you permanently deactivate your account, so now is your chance to make a backup of any important data.
- If you want to keep the information and data on your Facebook account before you delete it, you can download everything as an archive onto your computer. To do this, you’ll need to be logged in. Navigate to the arrow at the right of the blue bar at the top of your Facebook window; click ‘Settings’ and then click ‘Download a copy of your Facebook data’ at the bottom of the page.
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About Alex Noudelman
Alex Noudelman is a digital marketing expert as well as educator with 6 years of marketing and teaching experience. He received his Honors B.A. from York University and a Masters in Adolescent Education from D’Youville College.
