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This didn't exist a couple of years ago, but now there's a - supposedly permanent - way to delete your account: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account htt

This didn't exist a couple of years ago, but now there's a - supposedly permanent - way to delete your account: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account I assume that they will still keep some data around in order to spot possible new accounts with fake names (by people who deleted their real name accounts), like phone numbers and e-mail addresses. But it's a start...

V-2 12y ago
As far as I recall, Facebook battled companies that offered "social suicide" (automated deletion of private data from the service). Eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0_Suicide_Machine#Controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0_Suicide_Machine#Controv...