Step 4: Resist getting back togetherīut wait. Then a box showed up warning that deletion was permanent. A prompt popped up asking for my password. In Facebook’s settings menu, I clicked the button “Your Facebook information” and then clicked “Delete Your Account and Information.”įinally, I clicked on the blue “Delete Account" button. What I found out about the process: The more you have integrated Facebook into your life, the more time-consuming it will be to delete it.Īfter making sure I had a copy of all the Facebook data I cared about, it was time to do the deed. So I pulled out my data from Facebook and purged the account. After the disclosure of Facebook’s breach, I felt my trust in the social network was broken. I have some firsthand experience with all of this. And maybe you are just tired of the partisan yammering and updates from the six-degrees-of-friends. The breach followed a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, the voter-profiling firm that got its hands on the private data belonging to millions of Facebook users. “It’s why we took immediate action to secure people’s accounts and fix the vulnerability.” “People’s privacy and security is incredibly important, and we’re sorry this happened,” the company said Wednesday. The company said in a statement that it was investigating the incident and would share updates. Through the vulnerability, a hacker could take over your account - meaning anything you ever posted on Facebook, or even apps that you connected with using your Facebook account, could have been infiltrated. Last month, Facebook revealed that a security vulnerability exposed up to 50 million accounts to being hijacked by hackers.
There have been months - or is it years now? - of bad news about the social network. You may have decided enough is enough: It’s time to delete Facebook.