How to Delete Your Facebook Account

Privacy Concerns

Facebook has clearly stated in their Terms of Service that they claim ownership of your privacy and also claims to keep your data up to date.

Disturbing Content

No doubt, Social media has got amazing new features but many of the users are extensively misbehaving those features to a great extent.

Social Media Addiction

Wehn a habit reaches the addiction level then it turns out with wrong outcomes. Facebook has also become an addiction to many users that not a single minute goes by without checking it.

Risk of Cyberstalking

You love to keep your Facebook profile up to date with your every action so this is the first thing that hacker uses to begin manipulation. 

1) Click the drop-down arrow on the top right corner of the screen and go to Settings.

2) Select General Account Settings, from the menu panel on the left side.

3) Choose the “Deactivation Your Account” option.

4) You are now temporarily disconnected from Facebook.

Before you go on to delete your Facebook account permanently, you should download your Facebook data by following these steps.

1) Go to Settings from the drop-down arrow on the top right corner of the screen.

2) Select General Settings and click “Download a copy.” Click “Start My Archive”. You might be asked to enter your password. Once entered, you will be asked to click “start my archive” again.

3) Facebook will then gather the data and send the download link to your email

4) Upon clicking the link, you will be redirected to Facebook where you can find “Download Archive”.

5) Click the green button, and your data will be downloaded to your system.

You have downloaded your backup. Now proceed to delete your Facebook account by clicking Delete My Account page on Facebook.

After 90 days of deleting, your account, history and every information will be removed from Facebook's database and servers.

Source: How to Delete Facebook Account

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