How to delete a Facebook account

Deleting your Facebook account has become fashionable after it was leaked that the company compromised the information of more than 50 million users. Nowadays, when privacy has become so important, an event like this can be a turning point, and many users and big names in the technological world are making it so.

The co-founder of WhatsApp (a company that Facebook bought) urged through his Twitter account that It's time to delete your Facebook account. You have to think about privacy and it's hard to be sure that your data won't be stolen when these scandals happen more frequently than they should. For this reason, many users of the social network have decided delete your Facebook accounts, eliminating all traces of your information from the databases of the largest social network in the world.

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How to delete a Facebook account

Whether because you don't use it or because you want to listen to Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, you can delete your Facebook easily. It is the same platform that makes things quite easy for you to delete your account from its database. Although you will have to be sure that you want to do it. Once done there is no turning back.

Save everything you've shared

Before proceeding to delete the account, you may want to save photos and videos you've shared on the social network. You decide if you don't want those photos and videos that you have shared with the world through Facebook, but if you don't save them now you won't be able to get them again. For that reason you can find an option that allows you to create a copy of all your information and download it. Go to the General account settings, clicking on the arrow in the top bar of the social network and clicking on Settings. At the bottom of the page, under all the options, you will see a link so you can download a copy of your information.

The copy prepared by the social network includes posts, photos, videos, messages and chat conversations and data from your profile, as well as records of your activity. Click Create my file so that all the information is collected and you can easily download it to your computer.

Delete the social network account

Now that you have saved all your account information you can proceed to delete it. If you go to the section Manage account In the settings you will see an option called Deactivate your account. This is a feature that allows you to hide your profile from the rest of the world, although all the information is still on the social network (even if no one can see it). However, this option does not delete your information from the databases, although it allows you to return to the social network with all your data if at any time you regret it.

If what you want is delete your Facebook account forever you will have to click this link. They will ask you if you are sure you want to delete your profile and all the information you have shared (posts, photos, videos, the data you have entered in your profile and much more). If you are sure you want to do it, press the button "Delete my account".

The process is irreversible so once you press that button you will not be able to access your account on the social network again. No other user will be able to access it either, your profile will not even be able to be visited and all the content that was in it will disappear.

This process is not automatic. As Facebook indicates, the process can take up to 90 days to be completed. Yes, three full months to delete all the information. According to the company, this is because they take the deletion process seriously and verify that all your data is completely deleted from the social network.

Everything that has been on your profile will disappear from Facebook. However, photos in which you have been tagged but not uploaded by you, as well as photos of you that have been posted by another social media account, will not disappear, so there may be things you don't want there. but you can't do anything on Facebook to remove them from the platform. In that case you would have to contact the person who published those photographs.

How to delete the Facebook app from your mobile

You have already deleted your Facebook account forever. You do not plan to ever enter it again and the platform application is of no use to you anymore. However, you cannot uninstall it. What's going on?

On a large number of devices, the Facebook application is installed by default. This means that you will not be able to delete the app like any other application on your device. But don't worry, we'll show you how to get rid of Facebook on your mobile.

Don't know if your app was pre-installed? It is as simple as going to the terminal settings and clicking on the option Apps. There you will see a list with the applications. Navigate until you find Facebook. Now you will see a series of buttons, if the button appears uninstall The app was not pre-installed, so you can delete it by simply pressing that button. Do it, confirm that you want to delete the application and watch it disappear from your phone.

If the app was pre-installed on the device, you will not see the option to uninstall it in the applications section in the settings. However you will see an option called Deactivate. This feature does not delete the app or its data, however it prevents the app from being used and makes it disappear from the application drawer. It will consume a small part of the terminal's storage but will not be able to run unless you activate it again.

To delete an app that is preinstalled and that it cannot be uninstalled in the traditional way, but the alternative is to deactivate it, you can make use of root to delete it and pretend that it was never installed on that device. To do this, you have to root the device to get administrator permissions and be able to do everything you want with it. Among the new powers that you will have on your mobile is the power clear bloatware on your device, like this pre-installed Faceobok application that can cost you so much to delete.

With this last step you will have finally, and forever, gotten rid of Facebook. You will no longer have an account on the social network or the application installed on your device. You may want to make use of other social networks, however keep in mind that many of them are now part of Facebook's domain (Instagram and WhatsApp are two big 'FB' properties now), although it is true that they do not seem to suffer information thefts as this social network suffers.