How to delete, deactivate your Facebook account

**kazuya** · 27.05.10, 09:03

Are you confused by the myriad changes Facebook keeps making to its privacy settings?

Are you angry about your data being exposed without your express consent? Are you just fed up and not going to take it anymore?

You're not alone. A recent poll from Sophos found that an estimated 60 percent of users are considering quitting Facebook over privacy issues.

More than 11,000 people have committed to ditching the social-networking site on May 31, according to QuitFacebookDay.com. And more people are searching Google for ways to delete their Facebook accounts than ever, according to the Search Engine Land blog.

But leaving Facebook can be almost as confusing as navigating the privacy backwaters on the site.

Here are some tips on deleting your account and answers to questions about what that means for your data, and more.

How to delete, deactivate your Facebook account - CNN.com

**Owyn** · 27.05.10, 10:17

More than 11,000 people have committed to ditching the social-networking site on May 31

FaceBook will be better without them

**saebrtooth** · 27.05.10, 12:03

Once ur info is leaked it out there forever.

**Owyn** · 27.05.10, 12:25

what info? credit card number? if you uploaded that to facebook, isn't that your foult? *i don't use facebook but still wtf people first upload their data and make it accessable for others then cry that their info is accessable for others?

**saebrtooth** · 27.05.10, 12:51

not that, but personal data profile about urself

**Renk** · 27.05.10, 14:30

Originally Posted by Owyn

what info? credit card number? if you uploaded that to facebook, isn't that your foult? *i don't use facebook but still wtf people first upload their data and make it accessable for others then cry that their info is accessable for others?

The problem with Facebook is its "granularity": As recently stated NYT: "to manage your privacy on this service, you have to to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options."

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options - Graphic - NYTimes.com

I think that 99% of facebook's user thinking that their configuration is secure actually are wrong . They are wrong, but without knowing they are wrong, even without thinking they could be wrong -which is the worst.

Facebook sells you its services for some kind of money: This money is your personnal data. But now, due to Facebook's structure, the buyer has less and less control about the amount he took from his pocket (or rather, the amount of money the seller takes from the buyer's pocket).

Facebook gradually became too expensive...

**SBfreak** · 27.05.10, 15:20

From the very moment I saw those complicated privacy settings I new something was wrong with that site.
Not to mention you actually have to email them to delete your account.Where's the privacy in that?

**Blocker** · 29.05.10, 22:30

It's not an obligation to share your privacy issues on facebook,and I mean if you sign up on a social network page ,you're are in some way interested to share personal inforamation for being known on the net or by your friends