Those who want to purge themselves from the Facebook family of products entirely may need to delete other accounts as well.įor steps on how to quit Instagram, WhatsApp, and almost two dozen other popular services, check out CR’s guide to deleting online accounts. Apps can only connect to one account at a time. Click Disconnect next to the social media account you want to unlink. On the Your account tab, scroll to Connected social accounts. From the homepage menu bar, click the icon. Facebook also owns and operates Instagram and WhatsApp, among other services. Disconnect apps and services from your Account Settings now. Remember that isn’t the only social media platform run by the company. Messages you’ve sent to friends will still be visible in their inboxes, for example, and any posts you’ve made in groups will remain unless you delete them before opting to end your ties to Facebook. But it may take up to 90 days from the start of the deletion process for all your information to be deleted from Facebook’s backup systems, according to the company.Īnd there’s no way to be sure you’ve scrubbed yourself completely from every Facebook platform. In the meantime, your data will not be accessible to others on Facebook. If that happens, you can log back in to your account during that stretch and your deletion request will be canceled. Facebook says it won’t actually start the process until 30 days after you click, a delay the company says it builds in to give you time to change your mind. The decision won’t take effect immediately.
Once you’re finally ready to make your grand exit from Facebook, it’s relatively simple: Go to this page and click on “Delete My Account.”
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