Yesterday, I set out to do something which I had thought would be particularly easy. When Facebook had not opened up to the world, I had tried to register with them. Now, I do not remember how that attempt went but recently I started getting loads of emails from Facebook on the email address I had used. I already have another Facebook account associated with another email address. So, the logical step was to login and delete this profile altogether.
Simple, right? Wrong. I went to the Account Settings and found an option – “Deactivate”. I clicked on it and was greeted with a form asking me why I wanted to deactivate my account. I filled in the required options and proceeded to deactivate. The process was successful and I was informed that the profile was now deactivated and I could login again anytime to activate it. Hold on a second! I could activate this profile again? That means, my data would lie on the Facebook servers forever?
This did not sound too thrilling to me. I headed over to Google and searched. There was one website which stated that we needed to send an email to the Facebook staff to queue our account for deletion. This seemed tedious. Finally, I found a link which would let me accomplish the task I had set out to do.
Before visiting this link, make sure you are already logged in to your account otherwise you will be asked to enter an email address for correspondence.
If you are logged in, you should simply see a confirmation asking you whether you want to permanently remove your profile from Facebook. Hit submit and you’re good. If you do not login to your Facebook account for the next two weeks / 14 days, the profile and all its related contents will be deleted from Facebook.
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