Yeah, it’s their site, not yours, so you need to back up and supply a reason. But then a click on “Deactivate Now” and… In fact, it seems like the only way you can actually *quit* Facebook is to choose “Other”.ĭo that, click “Confirm” if you’re sure you want to proceed, and… See all those reasons for leaving? Facebook has answers for almost all of them that try to keep you around, handy FAQs on how to deal with a hacked account, too much email, how to learn Facebook, time management, etc. See that last link, in a different typeface and color? Click on “Deactivate your account”. To deactivate your own account, start by going to “Settings”, then “Security”: Curious? Learn more here: memorialize a deceased person’s Facebook account. No point in keeping it around and while there is a way to “memorialize” someone’s existence by having their account remain, that just seems weird to me so we didn’t go down that route.
I can step you through every part of this process because I unfortunately had to deactivate my father’s account after he passed away. We miss you already!”Ī bit disheartening from a privacy perspective, for sure, but I would like to think that after a certain amount of time deactivated accounts are wiped from the data storage, though that could just be wishful thinking in the 21st Century, the age of data mining.
Seems that the company wants to hold on to your data even when you say you’re all done, so while you can ‘deactivate’ your account, Facebook will cheerily email you afterwards saying “we’ve saved your data and you can reactivate whenever you’re ready. Well, it’s funny you ask that because it’s rather hard to really remove all traces of your existence on Facebook, even when you want to.
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