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Working on it. My suggestion is send your friends some contact info, like email address and or phone number (depending on whether they are really friends) and
by lzw 16y ago
Working on it. My suggestion is send your friends some contact info, like email address and or phone number (depending on whether they are really friends) and let them know you're shutting down your facebook account. Don't really need to give any explanation, just say you're closing it down. If pressed, maybe just say it is a distraction, or whatever.
Facebook won't actually close your account, though. That's the hard part. You have to go thru and delete all your information manually. IF you look on your feed / wall, you can see everything you've done, and you can go and click on it, and delete it. It is a long slow tedious process, and it takes me about 2 hours to do a year.
The normal "cancel my facebook account" procedure that facebook does is to just suspend your account. IT is all there and if you ever log in again, it comes right back. While it is suspended you won't show up on your friends lists, etc, but all your activity is still there.
This makes it really easy & tempting--in the days where just about every webpage has a facebook like button that if you accidentally press will cause you to see the facebook login screen-- to bring your account back.
I went around and around with them over a year ago about this, and their policy is that there is no such thing as "canceling" a facebook account. They keep it ready and waiting for you "for when you want to come back." Thus they will only allow you to "suspend" it. (this policy may have changed given all the high profile facebook quitting in the last year.)
I'm deleting all of the info, when that is done, I'm going to change the real name on the account to asdsrqwer sadfvcawer and then the password to something random and then "Suspend it".
- sharadgopal 16y agoYou could try Suicide Machine. They essentially do what you just described (Delete all your friends, and posts, etc. Also, that removes the temptation/ or means to go back to your old profile for which you will manually have to re-add all your friends. http://suicidemachine.org/ http://suicidemachine.org/
- aj 16y agoYou could try the Web 2.0 suicide machine. It automates what you are trying to.. http://www.suicidemachine.org http://www.suicidemachine.org
- aj 16y agoThat is when it works and is up...
- novum 16y agoYou can delete your account here: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac...
- ben1040 16y agohttp://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac... In the last few months, Facebook has amended their help pages to be more clear that there is also a permanent delete option. It suspends your account for 30 days, then purges it. I used this, and as promised I could no longer log in after the 30 days were up. The comments I had left on others' posts were removed, and photos I was tagged in had the tags dropped.
- joeyh 16y agoI wouldn't waste time clicking the "delete" button on everything in your wall. When I left facebook this spring, I spent an hour or so clicking that button hundreds of times.. then I ran Give Me My Data -- and it found the old, "deleted" wall posts. It's not particularly surprising that deleting something just hides it, poorly. While I then perma-deleted my account (at least I hope so), I assume they still have all my data, and that it's probably leaking out to anyone who knows where to look.