Deleted my account in Facebook.
By Venkataraman
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
Chennai, India
October 11, 2011 5:52am CST
Just today, I submitted my account to be deleted.
All I get from Facebook is a bunch of promotional notifications from others. None of my friends are on Facebook. (They are still on Orkut.)
I have accepted friendship requests from some members. After that what I get is invitation to their events and other messages, mostly related to their business. (Probably a pyramid or investment scheme.) So, I found my Facebook account to be useless. (If I want to share anything with my friends, I am using Orkut. We are already used to one, and don't want another social networking.)
By the way, anyone know how to delete the facebook account? The link is not in your account settings or profile. Then how will you delete, if you want to? (I did it successfully.)
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13 responses
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
11 Oct 11
Hello Venkat,
It may be a good step as you felt that the face book account is useless for you. Since it is not serving any good purpose, you may done a great job by deleting it. I don’t have a face book account so I don’t know what are the good things you will get from there.
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
11 Oct 11
Are you on Orkut or any other social networking sites? Facebook has good design than orkut and better applications too. But, it didn't serve anything for me as all my friends and relatives are on orkut.
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@siliguri (4241)
• India
11 Oct 11
Hi Venkataraman
I have also an account on facebook have made 3 months ago but me too doesn't have much friend in facebook so i seldom switch on the facebook but doesn't think yet to deactivate the account might be in future i will do.If your all friends are on Orkut so ask them or invite them to come on facebook.Anyway its your decision
Hey friend check out this link:
http://www.tech2hell.com/2011/08/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account-permanently/
Where you know how to delete the facebook account..
I have also an account on facebook have made 3 months ago but me too doesn't have much friend in facebook so i seldom switch on the facebook but doesn't think yet to deactivate the account might be in future i will do.If your all friends are on Orkut so ask them or invite them to come on facebook.Anyway its your decision
Hey friend check out this link:
http://www.tech2hell.com/2011/08/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account-permanently/
Where you know how to delete the facebook account..@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
11 Oct 11
Oh..at least we could have become friends in fb..
I have invited few but none joined. It's really overwhelming to have more social networking sites. And I am the only to use the computer for long time. Others, they just switch on the PC, check their emails, do little more on orkut and then switch off.
I used the search box in facebook to find the information.
I have invited few but none joined. It's really overwhelming to have more social networking sites. And I am the only to use the computer for long time. Others, they just switch on the PC, check their emails, do little more on orkut and then switch off.
I used the search box in facebook to find the information.1 person likes this
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
11 Oct 11
I have already done that. So you can relax and be happy. 
I used facebook search box to find that link.
I used facebook search box to find that link.1 person likes this
@nitin_hec (1096)
• India
11 Oct 11
I think you can not delete your facebook account. You can only deactivate it. I did deactivate my old account to create new account as a user can have only one active facebook account only.
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
11 Oct 11
Yes. There is only link to deactivate our account. For deletion, we have to request through the 'Help center' only.
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@umabharti (3972)
• India
11 Oct 11
No social site is a waste and no social site is a good one,we are the one who have to make it worth or a waste.It depends on how we use the features without hurting us and anyone.
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@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
11 Oct 11
you destroy your Facebook profile because you had enough good for you.
I know what you just send messages of different people and sometimes even strangers, in a moment us mad.
I can tell you how to wipe out user just need to enter your account and enter your personal information where you will find exactly how Facebook will be closed.
it will simply be disabled but you can activate it whenever you want.
successful and enjoyable day!
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@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
11 Oct 11
Yeah. It feels bored to see those unwanted updates. I just deleted instead of deactivating, since I found it's not for me, at least for now. Who knows, later I may need a facebook account.
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@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
11 Oct 11
very true friend.
sometimes it is a very good option for today but tomorrow they will may be there again.
you just do not have to delete it but just to interrupt for a moment.
Yet it is very nice that you have the courage to deactivate your account and to rest all these invasions and attacks.
Have a nice day!
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
11 Oct 11
i still could not deactivate mine, still addicted to games, sometimes i thought of deleting it too because i am currently enjoying the forums here, i just joined mylot 2 days ago.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
11 Oct 11
One can actually hide what a friend posts so you don't see it. I have blocked all the game posts and apps . You can hide all the posts from certain friends, or just the posts related to certain games. It helps a lot. They never know you aren't seeing everything they post.
@albto_568 (1268)
• Costa Rica
15 Oct 11
I have an account on Facebook, I almost never enter there, I just did it, after reading your article, because of curiosity, and I couldn´t find the way to delete it either, not because I want to, I just don´t pay much attention to FB anymore, I spend most of time hre on mylot now, and I agree with you, all you get from FB is notifications from people you don´t even know, most of the time.
@albto_568 (1268)
• Costa Rica
15 Oct 11
I think that you are right, for yourger people sites like facebook is actually kind of an addiction, even, sometimes their times at facebook is more important for them than their studies, and socializing in the virtual world, more important than doing it in real life.
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
15 Oct 11
May be, young people find the social networking sites to be useful. Others, they have lot of works to be done in a day and have less time to communicate in the virtual world. Young people, socializing is their main thing apart from studies and play. The worries of daily routine don't bother them.
@GemmaR (8517)
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15 Oct 11
I don't see why people feel the need to delete their accounts on Facebook. If you don't want to use it, why not just stop logging in and just leave it there? I find that I need to keep my account open because I don't get invited to places if I don't use it anymore. People use that website to create their events, and they just don't bother to get in touch with people in any other way so I would miss out if I didn't keep my account and check it perhaps once each week. Also, it's lovely just to be able to get to see photographs of your friends and family who you might not be able to see all that much anymore.
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
16 Oct 11
You may know, while signing up with facebook, we are automatically subscribed to their updates. When we get overwhelmed by their updates, we (atleast I) become tired of unsubscribing from each individual updates. As there was no known friend in Facebook (everyone was just from the Virtual world. I don't know any of them.), instead of unsubscribing from each friend, I decided to delete my account.
My real friends and family are still on Orkut. They didn't move to Facebook, because we are using it for long time and our photos are stored in Orkut.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
I still have Orkut account thu I am not active there.
I also have facebook account where I use to communicate with my friends and relatives since they do not know or ever heard of Orkut,so I need to maintain my facebook account for my relatives and friends updates.
Have a good day 
@varier (5685)
• Indonesia
12 Oct 11
They put the "Help Center" eye-catchy enough, at the above of "Log Out" option, so I think I will go there if I am going to delete my account permanently. And yeah, actually it is easy to find out the way to delete account in the help center.
Found it here: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=224562897555674&ref_query=delete+acc
And the form to submit it here: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
Well, I wouldn't submit it in the near time though :p. I am still using Facebook and found many usefulness there..
@mariahhh (1328)
• United Arab Emirates
12 Oct 11
I had several accounts in Facebook. I got tired of it so I deleted some of my accounts. I only have one account, which is my personal. But I have not used or open it for a couple of months now. I don't feel like using my account. myLot is so much better, and twitter. 
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
12 Oct 11
Yeah..Though I hadn't several accounts, I too didn't feel like comfortable or worthy.
@olivere99 (221)
• Sweden
15 Oct 11
hi venkataraman_vc! I have some trouble with facebook, i got deleted a couple of monhts ago, i diddn't want to get deleted but facebook deleted it, so I never got it back, I was in level 50 mafia wars farmville 38, and much much more. They just deleted it? why?! It was mean i thought, now i am trying to make another account but then they ask me for an mobile number, i don't have a mobile... i don't have a mobile cause it's broken in some way, it's working but i cannot call or recieve messages on it. My dad deleted his facebook cause everyone spamming (kind of).
I belive and hope they gonna delete the "mobile need" to register.
Regards oliver!
@venkataraman_vc (5293)
• Chennai, India
11 Oct 11
No. It's not in the account settings. It's in the 'Help centre'. That too, there's only link to request for deletion. It will take 14 days to permanently delete our account. Till then it will be in 'deactivated' state. We ourselves can't delete our account.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
11 Oct 11
That should be "closest" friends, not "closet" friends. I was very proud to have Sandy as a friend and would never have wanted to hide it.
