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How To Delete Facebook Account

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    Last Updated: March 14, 2009

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    Hello guys,

    Today I recieved a request via email asking me to release a guide post to remove a facebook account. I was also thinking that it’s a nice topic to write about. It can be helpful to lots of people who dont know and want to delete their facebook account. Lets get to the point How to delete a facebook account.

    Facebook provides you two options. One is to temporarily deactivate your account and the other one is to permanently remove your account. Let’s discuss and learn them one by one.

    How to Temporarily deactivate your account:

    1. Login to your Facebook account.

    2. Scroll to the bottom area of your facebook profile page and locate Account option.

    3. Navigate to Account > Deactivate Account > Deactivate

    4. Answer few question from Facebook.

    5. Click on Deactivate my Account on the bottom of the page.

    6. Enter capcha and click ok.

    7. You are done with deactivating your Facebook Profile.

    How to Delete Your Facebook Profile / Account :

    warning before this method will remove your Facebook Profile forever. There is no option of rollback, But if you have already made up your mind in deleting your facebook profile, follow the steps below.

    1. Click on Delete my Facebook Account

    2. This will ask you to confirm your deletation.

    3. Once confirment, it will delete your facebook profile forever.

     

    If you face any problem in deleting your facebookbook account you can contant me by commenting below. I check every single comment of my blog.

    - Aditya Vyas

27 Comments
  1. #1 PHP Inventory
    March 14, 2009 pm31 9:22 pm

    When account is disabled, does it get removed from Facebook search? My friend is going to the job interview and she is considering deleting her profile altogether, just to keep her privacy.

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  2. #2 Aditya
    March 14, 2009 pm31 10:36 pm

    When account is disabled most probably it will not turn up in search. You can give it a try before going to interview. Good Luck

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  3. #3 Treatment Toenail Fungus
    March 15, 2009 pm31 1:51 pm

    I don’t know where to comment about this, a bit off topic. Anyway I went thru a couple of your posts and found some grammatical errors. Take care of that, your blog looks very professional thumbs up for that :)

    Here’s an example

    “So in Order follow these steps to et indexed quickly:”

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  4. #4 Aditya
    March 15, 2009 pm31 3:37 pm

    Thank you very much for telling that I would keep that in mind. It’s just human typing error next time I will do spell and grammer check before posting. Thanks again for your review.

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  5. #5 SEO
    March 15, 2009 pm31 11:32 pm

    Yeah. This was a big deal a little bit ago. I think Facebook will continue to mis-step like this because they simply have to find a way to make money. The users have this unbelievable expectation that the service can remain free forever. But it is a for-profit business people.

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  6. #6 Rickie Jason
    March 16, 2009 pm31 4:16 am

    You rock. Rick

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  7. #7 web development
    March 16, 2009 pm31 11:32 am

    Aditya thanks for sharing to “how to delete facebook account?” but if i want to again activate my temporarily deactivate acccount then what is the process? Thanks in advance.

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  8. #8 Aditya
    March 16, 2009 pm31 3:44 pm

    Go to the same place and click on activate your facebook account. I hope it will be done then.

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  9. #9 web development
    March 17, 2009 pm31 8:07 am

    Thanks Aditya! I will try it! Hope it will work.

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  10. #10 Patrick
    March 18, 2009 pm31 5:15 pm

    I cannot delete my account:
    When I type in my password and the captcha it says always “Password/Captcha Incorrect. Try again”.

    But when I login/logout with my password, it works.

    I tried both with Opera and IE browser. JavaScript is turned on.

    I have also not found a mail address for support on facebook.

    What can I do?

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  11. #11 Aditya
    March 18, 2009 pm31 5:32 pm

    Follow the steps below -

    1. Click on Delete my Facebook Account

    2. This will ask you to confirm your deletation.

    3. Once confirment, it will delete your facebook profile forever.

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  12. #12 Axl
    April 14, 2009 pm31 1:51 pm

    I got the same problem my friend I type in the correct password but it always say that the password I typed was incorrect!What am i doing wrong???

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  13. #13 Aditya
    April 14, 2009 pm31 3:10 pm

    Axl are you sure you are putting right password in? I should work I don’t know why it is causing problem. You should contact face book people now to resolve this issue.

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  14. #14 Adam Clayton
    April 20, 2009 pm31 6:23 am

    ohhh nice info

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  15. #15 Melba
    May 15, 2009 pm31 2:15 am

    I’m getting the same problem with deleting my Facebook account. 

    I’ve tried several times and I enter the password associated with the account and the captcha.  Each time I get an error, that password or captcha was wrong.

    This is crazy!  Why isn’t this working?  Anyone have a work around?

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  16. #16 Morgan
    May 21, 2009 pm31 4:29 pm

    I’m questioning how you delete other people’s accounts?  Not as a deceptive and evil way, but what if someone dies and the family wants their facebook profile removed?

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  17. #17 Em
    May 24, 2009 pm31 3:33 am

    I’m desperately trying to delete my facebook account but I’m not sure what password it is asking for after I hit the submit button. Is it the password for my facebook account?

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  18. #18 JSD
    May 26, 2009 pm31 12:59 am

    I’m having same problem, i’m trying to permanently delete my account and i’m
    sure that i’m using the right password but it always says “Password/Captcha Incorrect” dont know what to do.

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  19. #19 Aditya
    May 27, 2009 pm31 3:42 pm

    It think it’s a Bug of facebook because that many people can’t be wrong. Final thing we can do is contact the support or help in the facebook for solution. 

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  20. #20 T
    May 29, 2009 pm31 3:38 am

    Guys,
    I may be your savior :-)

    Nice blog Aditya. I stumbled upon your blog looking for captcha incorrect in facebook delete page.

    Here is the deal. After frustrating *several* attempts “Password/captcha incorrect. Try again” to delete my facebook account, I tested logging in and logging out (on a different tab of the same browser (FF3). I could login without any problem Patrick above says.

    When this went on forever, I decided to atleast Deactivate it (which I had not done earlier). I cancelled the captcha incorrect popup and on the screen, logged in. Once I logged in, the same ‘Do you really want to delete your account?’ screen came up. I did everything and it worked like a charm. They say it will be deleted in 14 days. Lets see.

    Make sure you are logged in when you hit the link Aditya has given above.

    Hope this helps!

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  21. #21 Joe Franklin
    June 10, 2009 pm31 10:50 am

    You obviously know your stuffs! I’ve been searching for these kind of information, and I found it here. Might I asked where do you get all your information? :D

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  22. #22 Mayoung.McClendon
    June 16, 2009 pm31 1:36 am

    I have two profiles or accounts the new one will not let me go to the old one. I need the old one because it has all of my friends and all my applications on it the new one does not and I can not see from the home page where all my friends post at only see the new profile. help me please

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  23. #23 shane harris
    June 17, 2009 pm31 4:59 pm

    dude please help me , my friends thought it funny to set up an account of me on fb but they used the same e-mail as my account and same password. so now wen i go in to face book i go to the one they set up and not mine . i can see me but can t get in can only be a friend  , actully i can t cos i cant answer it as i can t get in my account. aaaaaggggghhhh! please help me please please.

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  24. #24 mei
    June 23, 2009 pm31 3:14 pm

    how to delete facebook account and email…i wan regester a new

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  25. #25 Kurt
    June 24, 2009 pm31 1:38 am

    Just deleted my account using T’s suggestion. I had tried to delete it multiple times but always got the password incorrect thing. Just had to log in (which reactivated my long-deactivated account) and then go through the delete process using the link above. Success!

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  26. #26 Cindy
    November 4, 2009 pm31 11:40 pm

    No, it does not work.  You are forever in the loop of either password incorrect or kapcha incorrect.  Unreal.  Who would have thought that you couldn’t delete your profile if YOU want to.

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