Deleting your account is different from deactivating your account. Deactivating means that nobody will be able to see your profile. Your account will still exist, and friends might still be able to see you on their Friends List and chat with you in Messenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to Delete Facebook on Desktop<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1. <\/strong>Log in to Facebook.\u00a0Click the arrow at the top right corner of any Facebook page, and click Settings.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Click \u2018Your Facebook Information\u2019 in the left column. Click \u2018Delete Your Account and Information\u2019 at the bottom of the right column.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.\u00a0<\/strong>Click \u2018Delete Account’ on the bottom right.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. <\/strong>Open Facebook on your phone and log in.\u00a0At the bottom-right corner of your app, tap on the three parallel horizontal lines. In this page, tap \u2018Settings & Privacy\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.<\/strong>\u00a0This will open a smaller menu. Tap \u2018Settings\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.<\/strong> Tap \u2018Account Ownership and Control\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.\u00a0<\/strong>Tap \u2018Deactivation and Deletion\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.<\/strong> Tap the bubble next to \u2018Delete Account\u2019, and click the blue bar that says \u2018Continue to account deletion\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.<\/strong>\u00a0Tap the blue bar that says \u2018Delete Account\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n You have 14 days to fully commit to deleting your account. If you log back in within this timeframe, you will be able to retrieve your information. <\/span>It may take up to 90 days to for Facebook fully delete your all of your data, but it won\u2019t be accessible to other users during this time period.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delete Facebook: What will be deleted? By deleting your Facebook account, you\u2019ll be erasing your profile, photos, posts, videos, and anything else that you\u2019ve personally added to Facebook. You won’t be able to retrieve any of these things. Some information, like messages you sent to friends, might still be visible after you\u2019ve deleted your account. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staying-private-online"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/facebook-2-1-163x300-1.png\")
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