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Issue
September/October
2019
How to Delete Your
Facebook Account
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Hidden Facebook Features Only Power
Users Know
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Tech Tips Issue 05 September/October 2019
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Tired of Social Media? Here is how
to delete Facebook
If you’re ready for a social media
break, here’s how to delete Facebook.
The rst couldn’t be easier. On the
desktop, click the drop-down menu at
the top right of your screen and select
“Sengs.” Click General on the top
le and Edit next to “Manage Ac-
count.” Scroll down and you’ll see a
“Deacvate your account” link at the
boom.
If you’re on mobile, navigate to
Sengs & Privacy > Sengs > Ac-
count Sengs > Personal Informaon
> Manager Account > Deacvate on
iOS or Android.
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Facebook doesn’t take this lightly—it’ll do
whatever it can to keep you around, in-
cluding emoonal blackmail about how
much your friends will miss you.
“Deacvaon” is not the same as leaving
Facebook. Yes, your meline will disap-
pear, you won’t have access to the site or
your account via mobile apps, friends
can’t post or contact you, and you’ll lose
access to all those third-party services
that use (or require) Facebook for login.
But Facebook does not delete the ac-
count. Why? So you can reacvate it
later.
Just in case that expected re-acvaon
isn’t in your future, you should download
a copy of all your data on Facebook—
posts, photos, videos, chats, etc.—from
the sengs menu (under “General).
What you nd might surprise you.
Account Deleon
To fully delete your Facebook account
forever and ever, go to facebook.com/
help/delete_account. Just beware that,
per the Facebook data use policy, “aer
you remove informaon from your prole
or delete your account, copies of that
infor-
maon
may
remain
viewable
else-
where to
the ex-
tent it
has been
shared with others, it was otherwise dis-
tributed pursuant to your privacy sengs,
or it was copied or stored by other users.”
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Translaon: if your wrote a comment on a friend’s status
update or photo, it will remain even aer you delete your
own prole. Sof of your posts and pictures may hang
around for as long as 90 days aer deleon, as well,
though just on Facebook servers, not live on the site.
There is a deleon grace period of 30 days now (up from
14). That means there is a month before Facebook gets
rid of your account, just in case you change your mind.
It’s just one more way Facebook cares.
Deleon on Behalf of Others
If you want to nofy Facebook about a user you know is
under 13, report the account, you narc. If Facebook can
“reasonably verify” the account is used by someone un-
derage—Facebook bans kids under 13 to comply with
federal law—it will delete the account instantly, without
informing anyone.
Be sure to specify a legacy contact person to handle your
account in the event of your unmely death. You can do
that under Sengs > General > Manage Account > Your
Legacy Contact. Once you set one up, you’ll get noca-
on every year from Facebook to double check that the
contact should stay the same, unless you opt out. You
have the opon to ensure that aer you die, if the legacy
contact does report you to Facebook as deceased, you
account gets deleted—even if the legacy contact wants
the meline to be memorialized.
For more informaon on how to do this, visit hps://
www.pcmag.com/arcle/331910/how-to-delete-your-
facebook-account
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Hidden Facebook Features Only Power Users Know
Tech Tips Issue 05 September/October 2019
Technology ps courtesy of www.PCWorld.com
See Who’s Snooping In Your Account
Want ot know if someone is logged into
your Facebook account without your
permission? First, go to your Sengs
page
Under the Security and Login folder,
you’ll see “Where you’re logged in.”
Here you will nd all your acve Face-
book log-ins from desktop or mobile
devices. It will (usually) provide data on
the locaon, browser, and device. Ifs
something seems shy, you have the
ability to log out from individual devices
(click the : menu > Log Out) or all devic-
es at once (scroll down and click “Log
out all Sessions.”) This comes in handy
if you lgo into a friend’s computer or on
some public laptop, but forget to log
out.
Download a Copy of All Your Facebooking
Want your own personal copy of everything
you’ve ever shared on Facebook? I’m talk-
ing, ev-er-y-thing: Every post, every image,
every video, every message, and chat con-
versaon (not to menon all the sengs you
probably don't even think about)? You can
do that! Go to Sengs > Your Facebook
Informaon and click “Download your infor-
maon.” Follow the direcons from there.
This feature lets you take a trip down
memory lane, or just save your info should
you ever decide to delete your Facebook
account. And of course, it reveals exactly
what Facebook has saved about you. You
might be surprised!
Stop with the Birthdays
Facebook will tell you every morning who
among your friends is celebrang their arri-
val on Earth. If you hate that and birthdays
in general, you can stop the nocaons.
Go to Sengs > Nocaons > On Facebook
> Edit There are many things here you can
curtail, such as highlights of what you did on
that day in the past, acvies of your closest
friends, the launch of new local Pages, etc.
But not far down is the opon to turn o the
birthdays.
Facebook is a Virtual Arcade
Facebook has quietly built a fairly
robust mulplayer gaming plaorm
(quietly aer the days of Farmville
anyway). It allows people to instantly
play against friends through Messen-
ger, on the Facebook mobile app, or
on the web. This secon can be ac-
cessed by clicking the Games link in
the le-hand rail (or under the
menu on the mobile). This secon is
home to dozens of free games from
mulple genres including classics like
Pac-Man, Uno, Snake, and Words
with Friends. Users will have the
opportunity to challenge friends no
maer what plaorm they are on.
Facebook also has its own Twitch
video streaming competor called,
unimaginavely, Facebook Gaming,
at .gg.
For more ps and tricks with Face-
book, visit: hps://www.pcmag.com/
feature/324797/24-hidden-facebook-
features-only-power-users-know/19
