Cancel My Facebook Account
If you're ready for a social media break, right here's how you can delete Facebook.
Cancel My Facebook Account
Deactivating
Facebook offers you 2 options: 2 alternatives: deactivate or remove
The initial could not be much easier. On the desktop computer, click the drop-down menu at the top-right of your screen as well as select settings. Click General on the leading left, Edit next to "Manage Account" Scroll down and also you'll see a "Deactivate My Account" web link near the bottom. (Below's the direct link to use while logged in.).
If you get on your mobile device, such as using Facebook for iphone, similarly go to settings > Account settings > General > Manage Account > Deactivate.
Facebook doesn't take this gently - it'll do whatever it could to maintain you around, consisting of psychological blackmail about how much your friends will certainly miss you.
Thus, "Deactivation" is not the like leaving Facebook. Yes, your timeline will disappear, you won't have accessibility to the website or your account by means of mobile applications, friends can't upload or contact you, and you'll lose accessibility to all those third-party solutions that use (or need) Facebook for login. However Facebook does not erase the account. Why? So you can reactivate it later.
Just in case that expected re-activation isn't really in your future, you need to download a copy of all your data on Facebook - posts, photos, videos, talks, and so on-- from the settings menu (under "General"). Exactly what you find might shock you, as our Neil Rubenking figured out.
Account Deletion
To completely delete your Facebook account forever and ever, go to the Delete My Account web page at https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account. Simply be aware that, per the Facebook data use policy "after you remove details from your profile or delete your account, copies of that details could remain readable somewhere else to the degree it has actually been shown others, it was or else distributed according to your privacy settings, or it was replicated or saved by various other individuals.".
Translation: if you wrote a discuss a friend's status upgrade or photo, it will continue to be after you delete your very own profile. Several of your posts as well as pictures might spend time for as long as 90 days after removal, too, however simply on Facebook servers, not survive on the site.
Removal in behalf of Others
If you want to notify Facebook about a customer you know is under 13, you could report the account, you narc. If Facebook can "sensibly confirm" the account is made use of by a person underage-- Facebook bans youngsters under 13 to abide by government regulation-- it will certainly erase the account quickly, without notifying any individual.
There's a separate form to request removal of accounts for individuals who are clinically incapacitated and hence not able to use Facebook. For this to work, the requester has to show they are the guardian of the individual concerned (such as by power of attorney) along with offer a main note from a physician or clinical facility that spells out the incapacitation. Redact any type of details necessary to maintain some privacy, such as clinical account numbers, addresses, and so on.
If a user has passed away, a legacy contact-- a Facebook close friend or relative that was designated by the account owner prior to they died-- can get accessibility to that person's timeline, when accepted by Facebook. The legacy call might have to supply a link to an obituary or various other documents such as a death certification. Facebook will certainly "memorialize" the web page so the departed timeline resides on (under control of the heritage get in touch with, that can't publish as you), or if chosen, remove it.
Designate a certain heritage contact individual to handle your account after your passing away. You could discover that under settings > General > Manage Account > Your Legacy Contact. Once you set one up, you'll get a notification annually from Facebook to double check that the call should remain the same, unless you opt out of that. You can additionally take the additional action of seeing to it that after you die, if the legacy call does report you to Facebook as dead, your account gets removed (even if the heritage contact wants the timeline to be hallowed).