How to permanently delete a Facebook account in 2018

Are you tired of your Facebook profile and want to delete it? Not everyone uses Facebook, no matter how much a profile was created in its day and even took it with a certain liking. Social networks are not for every neighbor's child, and if we do not use it, sometimes it is best to unsubscribe from our page. Therefore, in today's tutorial we will see how to delete a Facebook account permanently and forever.

so far, Mark Zuckerberg's company not that he made it exactly easy for us at the time of unsubscribing our profile. Facebook will try in every possible way to prevent that from happening. But if we already have it clear and decided, let's get down to work!

Differences between deactivating and deleting an account on Facebook

Before starting it is important to differentiate between deactivating and deleting an account From Facebook. When we deactivate a Facebook account:

• It is a temporary measure: we can activate it again whenever we want.
• People can't see our bio, nor do we appear in search results.
• Certain information may still be visible (such as the messages we send).

On the other hand, if what we want is to completely eliminate it with all the information, photos and videos that we have published, then things get a bit complicated. Well, that was before, because with the new data protection law it seems that Facebook has put the batteries and now things are much simpler.

Also, a little further down I will pass you a small safe-conduct. A direct link from which to request the cancellation and complete deletion. But let's go by parts ...

When we delete a Facebook account:

• Once removed we will never be able to regain access. It is a definitive and irreversible measure.
• Facebook takes 14 days to process the final unsubscribe request.
• It can take up to 90 days for Facebook to remove all of our information from its database.
• The company warns that some data or information may be kept in its databases, but without our personal data.
• There is information that will continue to be present, such as messages sent to other users.

Now that we have everything a little more defined, let's get to the heart of the matter.

How to delete a Facebook account forever

If we are already decided and we want to permanently delete our Facebook account, the first thing to do will be to find this option on the social network. So you don't go crazy, here is a little step-by-step guide:

• Click on the drop-down that appears in the upper right side of any Facebook page.
• We click on "Setting”.

• We click on "Your Facebook information”In the left column.
• Click on "Delete your account and your information”.
• To finish, we confirm the deletion request by clicking on "Delete my account”.

Note: Before proceeding with the deletion, Facebook gives us the possibility to download a backup with all the data that we have accumulated over time. Practical as well as recommended.

After 14 days the process of definitive deletion of our account will begin. During this time the account will remain deactivated and we will be allowed to cancel the deletion.

To cancel the definitive deletion we will only have to log in again, and in the message that appears click on "Cancel deletion”.

How to delete a Facebook account from mobile

If we are using a mobile phone, either Android, iOS or Windows Phone, the easiest way to permanently cancel our Facebook profile is the following:

• From the browser, we access the following direct link: //www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
• Just click on "Delete my account”To request the definitive deletion of our Facebook account.

We can also use this link to delete the account from a PC or desktop computer.

How to deactivate your Facebook profile

It is possible that we are not entirely clear about unsubscribing our Facebook profile. We have many photos, videos, memories, and, after all, it may be nothing more than a hottie of the moment. Maybe later we will regret it and then there will be no going back.

For these cases, we can limit ourselves to deactivating our Facebook account by following the following steps:

• We click on the drop-down located in the upper right side of any Facebook page.
• Click on "Setting”.
• In the left column, click on "general", and we are going to "Manage account”.
• Here we select "Deactivate account”And we follow the confirmation steps.

Keep in mind that, if we deactivate the Facebook account, but we have Messenger, the latter will continue to work. That means that we can still chat in Messenger, that our profile photo will continue to appear in the messaging application, and that other users will also be able to search for us within Messenger.

How to disable Messenger

Therefore, if up to now we were also using Messenger, it is best to deactivate it anyway:

• We open Messenger.
• We click on our profile photo in the upper left corner, "Privacy and conditions -> Deactivate Messenger ”.
• We write our password and click on "Continue”.
• To finish, we touched on “Deactivate”.

Now that we have the account deactivated, if one day we want to recover it, we will only have to log in with our usual username and password.