How to Delete your Facebook account?

Facebook discourages you from deleting your account, partly to preempt restoration requests from users who have done so in the heat of the moment, and also because it wants to hang onto your data.

Instead, you are encouraged to “deactivate” your account by going to Account Settings, Security and choosing ‘Deactivate your account’.



 

This will hide all your Timeline information, such as friends, photos and interests, and prevent people from contacting or searching for you. You can reactivate your account at any time by logging back into the site.

If you are sure you want to delete your account forever, which will permanently remove your personal information from
Facebook’s database, go to www.facebook.com/help/delete_account and click ‘Delete my account’.



 

According to Facebook, this typically takes up to one month, although some data may remain in back-up copies and logs for 90 days, and certain content, such as messages you’ve sent to friends, may remain visible.