There are a lot of reasons you might be thinking nigh deleting your Facebook account -- mayhap yous retrieve you spend too much time on it and desire to have a social media cleanse, or perhaps you and your friends take already stopped using it, so there's no reason to keep it around.

It's important to sympathize deleting your Facebook business relationship is unlike from deactivating your account -- once deleted, it tin can never be recovered. Download our complete productivity guide here for more tips on improving your productivity at work.

Which means, if y'all're intent on getting rid of your business relationship for temporary detox purposes, you lot might want to consider culling methods to detoxing from social media without deleting anything.

Merely if you're sure you're ready to leave the earth'due south most popular social media network, it's a simple process.

Keep in heed, if you delete your Facebook, your photos and all your Facebook information volition be lost forever. If you want to save that data, I'd advise downloading a copy of information technology.

To download a copy of all your Facebook information, get to "Settings" and click, "Download a copy of your Facebook data," and so, "Outset My Archive."

This will ensure you lot can withal find all those bad-mannered middle school photos, years downwards the road.

To find out how to delete or deactivate your Facebook account, or delete a group or folio you've created, read on.

How to Delete or Conciliate Your Facebook Account

How to Delete Facebook

  1. Go to https://m.facebook.com/business relationship/delete
  2. Click "delete my account"
  3. Exercise non log back into Facebook and expect 14 days for the deletion request to complete

In one case you're sure you're set to delete your Facebook account permanantly, click this link. When you click the link, this bulletin will pop upward:

All you demand to do is click "Delete My Account."

Facebook notes it takes a few days to complete deletion after you lot request information technology, and if you log back into Facebook during that time, you'll cancel the deletion request.

Retrieve, if you lot think there's a take a chance you'll want to reopen your Facebook account in the future, you might desire to conciliate it instead of deleting information technology. If you deactivate your account, Facebook saves all your information, photos, and settings, and you can reactivate at any time. In the meantime, your contour volition but be subconscious.

How to Deactivate Facebook

  1. Click "Settings"
  2. Under Full general Account Settings, click "Manage Account"
  3. Click "Deactivate Account"
  4. Enter Facebook password to keep
  5. Choose a "reason for leaving" multiple-pick bubble, then click "Conciliate"

How to Delete Your Facebook Grouping

We've covered how to delete your account, only let'due south say yous don't desire to delete your whole business relationship -- you just want to delete a group yous created.

Note: if you didn't create the group but you're an admin, you can only delete the group if the original creator leaves it.

How to delete a Facebook Grouping

  1. Go to the grouping you want to delete and click "Members"
  2. Abreast each person, select "Remove from Group"
  3. Once you remove everyone else, choose "Leave Group" adjacent to your proper noun
  4. Click "Leave and Delete"

1. Go to the group you desire to delete, and click "Members." Click abreast each person's name, and select "Remove from Group."

2. Once you've removed everyone else in the group, choose "Leave Group" adjacent to your name.

3. Click "Leave and Delete".

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iv. And voila! Your Facebook Grouping is gone.

How to Delete Your Facebook Page

If you created a Facebook Page for a personal business you've since abandoned, or an old fan Page for Justin Bieber that no longer suits your passions, there's an easy mode to delete it.

How to Delete a Facebook Page

  1. Get to your folio and click "Settings"
  2. Gyre to lesser of Generals Tab and click "Remove Page"
  3. Click "Delete [Page]" and then click "Ok"

To delete a Page, you take to be the creator of a Page -- something I learned the hard style. This was the inspiration behind my very short-lived business, "Caroline'due south Consulting Concern."

If you desire to delete a Folio you've created, here's how:

1. Go to your Page, and click "Settings."

2. From the Full general Tabs inside Settings, scroll to bottom and click "Remove Page."

3. Click "Delete [Page Name]" and so click "Ok."

4. And that's information technology! It's important to note Facebook takes upward to 14 days to delete your Page.

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Originally published April 25, 2018 6:00:00 AM, updated June 10 2021