


The quickest way to test the waters is to deactivate your Facebook account, which is essentially an account suspension that can immediately be reversed. Some products and services are deeply integrated with Facebook and could become difficult to use without the social networking account. Step 1: Assess what you might loseīefore you commit to breaking up with Facebook, it’s important to handicap the potential collateral damage. I also included steps on breaking up with Instagram, Facebook’s photo-sharing app, for those looking for a cleaner getaway.

To make account deletion as painless as possible, here is a step-by-step guide. 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. 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. Maybe you are just tired of the partisan yammering and updates from the six-degrees-of-friends. More recently, The New York Times reported that Facebook gave other technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it had previously disclosed. 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 at the time. 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. In October, 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.
