Delete Facebook account?

riddlermarc · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:14

Is it possible? I want to remove my account in the face of widening suspicion of personal info leakage and all I can find is the Deactivate option - this leaves tour account there but "inactive", not actually deleting it.

I remember reading somewhere you can't, is this true?

Tony Williams · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:16

http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061221065303AABNk1x

Martynt74 · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:16

I only know about deactivating it. Which means no one can see it.

Possibly try emailing them?

stevenazari1 · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:18

deactivate and leave it for 60 days. it is deleted then.

Moredhel · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:22

You have to remove all the content manually then ask them nicely. They respond in about 24 hours, usually to point out one obscure image you missed somewhere.

Beansprout · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:24

What a strange reason to delete your profile for. Just set your privacy settings accordingly!

iSam · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:27

Just email them and they will remove it. Seems a bit extreme though. Iirc I think they won't let you create a new account from that ip.

riddlermarc · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:28

Beansprout said:
What a strange reason to delete your profile for. Just set your privacy settings accordingly!

Not in the slightest, recently there has been a whole rash of reports highlighting info leakage etc:

As a quick example: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/07/1646250&from=rss

I wish I hadn't signed up for it when it all started (before the kiddies got to it) and now it's just a burned that fills up my inbox and serves no useful purpose..

I don't want to just deactivate it, I want to flipping well make sure they delete my account - I have seen the things about having to manually deleting photos/friends etc but that is a bit pants isn't it.. oh well, if that's the way it has to be done..

Greenlizard0 · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:46

Tell me about, it's a total pile of steaming dog do.

iSam · 7 Feb 2008 at 20:49

I've had someone hack my account - I changed my password and contacted fb about it. Hasn't happened since. All they did was change my status.

James07 · 7 Feb 2008 at 21:12

riddlermarc said:
I remember reading somewhere you can't, is this true?

ICC (Internet Code of Conduct) + Data Protection states that any individual who wants any information owned by one self to be removed from any companies records is entitled to such a thing, if the company refuses to do such a thing then they may face the courts.

Did this at Alevel ICT and Law.