How to Quit Facebook and Delete Your Profile

Facebook is one of the largest social network websites on the Internet. Facebook allows you to create a personal profile and interact with friends through comments, messages, photos and videos. Some individuals find that Facebook takes up too much of their personal time. Learn how to quit Facebook and delete your Facebook profile to free up your time.

Instructions

1. Determine why you wish to quit Facebook. Closing a Facebook account can leave some individuals feeling socially isolated. Create goals that you wish to meet through Facebook (e.g. keep in touch with high school friends). Check to see how well Facebook meets your goals over the course of a month.

2. Notify your Facebook friends that you are quitting and deleting your Facebook profile. Closing a Facebook account affects not just you, but your Facebook friends as well. Give your friends time to establish other methods of contacting you, such as email or instant messaging.

3. Download and save any Facebook data or information from the social network website that you wish to keep after you have quit Facebook. You will not be able to login or access Facebook after you have closed your Facebook account and deleted your Facebook profile.

4. Deactivate your Facebook account. Click "Settings" in the top right-hand corner of your Facebook webpage. Scroll down and click "deactivate" in the lower right-hand corner of the Facebook site.

5. Answer the questions in the dialog box that appears regarding why you want to quit Facebook. Click "OK" after the warning regarding deleting a Facebook profile. Your Facebook profile has now been deactivated and you have successfully quit Facebook.

6. Devote extra time to your personal hobbies, past times or nonprofit volunteer activities.

Tips & Warnings

• Quitting Facebook may cut you off from some friends who use the social network website as their main source of communication.

Resources

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