How To Permanently Delete A Facebook Account
Here is the shortcut link to the official Facebook account deletion page.
Read the step-by-step guide for a clean, dignified exit.
A deceased member's account can be memorialized or deleted.
Your account will be ‘deactivated’ for two weeks. After this period it will be permanently deleted.
Do not login to your account during this time. It will cancel the deletion request.
Do not be fooled into switching to a deactivation request. Deactivation is NOT deletion.
Consider an account deletion epitaph to notify friends of your departure.
In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about 90 days.
Allegations of complicity with National Security Agency surveillance suggest that your data may never truly be deleted.
You can still cleanse your Facebook presence for everyone else,
Delete any sensitive content that you have posted.
Contact friends about content that you would like deleted.
Backup your data before deletion if you'd like a copy.
As hard as you try, some personally identifiable information may remain. This could be something as simple as your name on a message.
You have little control over this or what others share about you in future. The most you can realistically do is ask your friends to respect your privacy.
Data shared with apps and advertisers is with them forever. As a Facebook user you are leaving behind a valuable personal data footprint.
Facebook can track non-users via the ‘like’ button and other similar means. You can minimise this and protect your privacy from Facebook and others.
Use a privacy focused browser like Brave.
Facebook owns WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus and can share data between these and its own products e.g. Facebook Messenger. Keep this in mind when using their apps.
rodolfotheinsaaane on March 24th, 2018 at 11:24 UTC »
Not sure if still the case but back in the day I deleted my FB account by setting my age as 11. Customer support contacted me to confirm the age, I did, and everything was deleted instantly (because it's a US Federal offense to collect data on children). No fucking about with reset logins, waiting weeks etc.
OutrageousIdeas on March 24th, 2018 at 10:46 UTC »
If you are a EU national, don't do it now. Wait for GDPR to come into force, and then request complete removal of your data. After you verify that the account is empty, then delete it.
EDIT: Disclaimer: I am not a specialist in GDPR. AFAIK:
it applies to residents of EU; the IP you're accessing FB from doesn't matter, what matters is if that one of the national government agencies mandated to enforce GDPR will listen to your complaint should a company not respect GDPR
it comes into force on 26th May; it is expected that a lot of companies that are not compliant at that time will be given warnings for the first trespasses instead of strict enforcement right away; it is also expected that the giants (Google, FB, Amazon) will be subjected to very strict enforcement right away to send a message to the industry
Realistically, if a company has no point of presence in the EU, it is very unlikely that EU can do anything about it (e.g. entirely online companies from US, Asia, etc..) - be careful to whom you give up your data
UK is mandated to implement GDPR for now. It is likely that all UK-based companies will continue implementing GDPR even after Brexit because they needed it anyway to operate in EU
I work for a medium-sized UK-based company. I can tell you that even before GDPR we took the requests to review and remove personal data very seriously, with prompt actions; but since GDPR got approved, the entire aspect of protecting personal information was taken to a whole new level. If we got so worked up around this, I can't imagine what happened at FB and Google...
verywoody on March 24th, 2018 at 08:38 UTC »
Is there a way to tell what third-party sites I have used Facebook login for so that I can change them over before I delete Facebook and lose access?