[Solved]How to Permanently Delete Facebook Account and Protect your Privacy

What to do?

Option 1. Locking Down Your Privacy Settings on Facebook

There is no denying that your reasons to delete your Facebook account permanently are valid. However, it’s wise to pause first and consider other available options that can help you secure your personal data on social media. Locking down your Facebook privacy settings is one such option. Proceed as follows:

From the account menu (the down arrow the top right of your screen)

1. Go to “Settings”, then click on “Privacy”, then edit who can see your future posts, who can see your contacts, and who can access your friends’ list. Only allow those you trust with your information to access it.
2. Go to “Contact and Basic Info” then edit who can see it.
3. Go to “Settings”, then click on “Ads”, then disallow any ads that you had allowed to show on your timeline but they now irritate you.

Option 2. Controlling What Appears on Your Timeline

After locking your privacy settings, you can improve your Facebook experience further by filtering out the stories and posts that you dislike. Facebook ranks your news feeds in the order of “what excites you most”. If you don’t like what the site chooses for you, go to “News Feed Preferences” and then unfollow people/pages you dislike. Better still, you can create a list of your favorite feeds and then prioritize them to appear first every time you log in.

Option 3. Deactivating Your Facebook Account

This should be the second last option for you before making the ultimate decision to delete your Facebook account permanently. As we will see later on, deactivating is basically a temporary account deletion. Your friends will stop seeing your account online after you deactivate it, but your information therein remains in Facebook’s data archives.

To deactivate your account, click on Menu > Settings > General > Manage Account > Deactivate Account.

If you ever reconsider your decision and decide to reactivate your account, Facebook will only require you to login with the same login details you had used in the deactivation process.

Option 4. Deleting Your Facebook Account Permanently Immediately

How Different Is It from Facebook Deactivation?

Unlike in account deactivation where you can go back and pick up from where you had left, deleting your account is a permanent and irreversible process. Your only chance of a comeback is through a new account, building another profile from scratch. That said, you must be convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that you are completely done with your current Facebook account before deleting it.

Download your Facebook Data before Deletion

Before you let go of your Facebook account, perhaps you should reflect back on the memories saved therein and what it would be like to live without them. To make sure that you will never regret your decision later in life, we have compiled a list of three things that you must do before hitting the delete button. They include:

• Download your Facebook data. Just go to Menu>General Account Settings>Download a Copy of your Facebook Data. That done, “Start My Archive” and then save that file. Your pictures, videos, and important chats will not be lost.
• Download and save your close friends’ contact information.
• If you have interlinked some of your favorite social apps with Facebook, you might lose them as well after getting rid of your Facebook account. Delink your app logins from Facebook and link them to other social media platforms.

Deleting Your Facebook Account

Proceed as follows: Menu > Support Inbox > Safety Center > Help Center > Managing Your Account > Deactivating or Deleting Your Account > How Do I Permanently Delete My Account > Let Us Know . From there, follow the prompts to the end.

What If You Don’t Have the Login Details?

Maybe you have multiple Facebook Accounts and your wish is to permanently delete the dormant ones. Unfortunately, you forgot the password to one of the dormant accounts. Don’t freak out just yet because you are yet to exhaust your options. Simply open the Facebook homepage and then click on “Forgot Password”. That will lead you to a page where you will be required to answer some security questions or reset the password via email. You will choose the most convenient option for you. Follow the instructions until you get a new password then delete your account as described earlier.

The Deletion Process

After submitting a deletion request, your account is temporarily suspended for a maximum of 14 days to create enough room for you to change your mind. If you regret deleting it before the 14 days elapse, you still can log back in and cancel your earlier request. If the 14 days elapse without you showing up, the account is deleted never to be seen again. All the backup data that Facebook had saved you is deleted after a maximum of 90 days from the day the account was deleted.

Delete Facebook Account Permanently without Waiting 14 Days

Why wait for a whole two weeks to get your much-awaited leave? You can delete your Facebook account without waiting for 14 days. Here is how:

• From your account settings, remove your associate number & trusted contacts, and then deactivate your code generator.
• That done, ensure that all none of your gadgets has your Facebook account logged in. The surest way to do this is to uninstall and delete all Facebook applications from all your devices.
• Replace your primary Facebook email with a disposable email. This email can only last a few minutes before Facebook detects and deletes it.
• Once deleted, clear your browser information and then reboot your computer. This is to make the whole process untraceable.