Deactivate, Reactivate or Delete Facebook Account

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If you no longer want to use your Facebook account, or if you realize you accidentally created duplicate accounts, you can Deactivate an account or have it Deleted by Facebook.

To deactivate your account, click on Settings and then click Deactivate.  (Make sure you are logged into the account you want to deactivate BEFORE you click the deactivate link.)  See example below.  After you do this, search on your name to make sure you are no longer in the search results. Facebook Settings - Deactivate Account

If you decide to reactivate your account, login to Facebook using your original login and password…that’s all you need to do.  But remember, Facebook policy states that you are only allowed to have one account.

If you want to permanently Delete your account, Facebook can handle that for you.  Visit this Facebook Help Link and you will see the following.  Read the message carefully and only click Submit if you want to permanently Delete your account.

How to Delete Facebook Account

Regards,

Kimberly Yow
Marketing That’s Easy

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5 Responses to “Deactivate, Reactivate or Delete Facebook Account”
  1. derekpm says:

    Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback

  2. Patrice Clark says:

    last night I was able to post photos on my face book page. Today I could not. I researched also looked at all the posts telling what they actually did to fix their problem. Still nothing. I can do everything like post video etc…..the only problem is uploading photos. Now What? Should I delete my entire facebook account and start anew? Please help. Thank you, Patrice Clark

    • Kimberly says:

      Sorry for the delay in responding Patrice. Hopefully your situation has been resolved by now. Just FYI, the only way you can delete your account is by asking Facebook to do it. I hope you didn’t have to resort to those measures. – Kimberly

  3. JSR says:

    Hi, would you by any chance know what happens to a FanPage I control when I deactivate my facebook account? I want to make sure that it stays on facebook. I’m not the only admin so there will be someone to handle it in my absence but I don’t want to take any chances since I’m the one that created it. Thank you :)

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