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Deleting your Facebook account isn’t as it should be. If you simply browse to Account and then Account Settings, you are only given an option to Deactivate your account. All this does is temporarily hide your profile details from everyone, and does not actually remove any information what-so-ever from the site. All you need to do is login again and you can easily reactivate your account. To permanently delete yourself from Facebook’s database of evil, you have to go through the following process:

1. Click on Help Center in the footer.
2. Select Profile under the Using Facebook heading.
3. Choose Account Settings and Deletion (oddly, the first item on the list).
4. Now click on the How do I permanently delete my account? heading.
5. This will expand a wall-o-text explaining how to deactivate your account, which you don’t want to do. Instead, read to the half-way point, where there is a link to submit a request to have your account deleted – click it.
6. After reading the guilt-trip, click the submit button.
7. In the new window, enter your password, and then the two words in the captcha box, then click Okay.

Note that at this point, your account still hasn’t been deleted! After clicking okay on the last box, you’ll see the following text:

Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days. If you log into your account within the next 14 days, your account will be reactivated and you will have the option to cancel your request.

Yes, even though you went through 8 steps (the waiting is the 8th step) to delete your account, Facebook really wants to make sure you haven’t accidentally done so! As such, if you login in anytime in that 14 day period, you’re account will be reactivated (fortunately, it doesn’t automatically cancel the deletion request).

So quitting Facebook is nearly as hard as quitting smoking, but it can be done. I’ve started the process, and in 14 days my account will finally be out of there! What will I do with all of my Facebook time? Probably put it towards Twitter instead….