Facebook, the biggest social media platform, there are almost 3 billion users of Facebook. If you are using Facebook for a while and you are addicted to it, you probably want to step away from it. The best way to cut off from this social media giant is to delete your account from it.

Before you take the decision of deleting your Facebook account, you should consider some factors:

  • The data and posts on your Facebook’s news feed will disappear

  • Your data, comments, and post in different groups and pages will also vanish

  • The apps in which you are logged in through your Facebook’s account will also stop working

But, Facebook allows you to download your data on Facebook so that you will not lose anything. You can easily delete your Facebook account from your browser or from your mobile app. Here’s how you can easily delete your Facebook account.

How to delete or Deactivate Facebook account from Desktop:
You can delete your Facebook account from the browser on the desktop by following the given steps.
Open your Browser and open Facebook.

  • Log in to your account by giving the log-in information.

  • Click the down-arrow button in the right top corner of your Facebook home page.

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  • Click settings and privacy and then click the settings button.

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    Delete Facebook Account


  • Click Personal information in the right sidebar.

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    Delete Facebook Account


  • Click “view”, in the seventh row of personal information.

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  • A page will open, select whether, you want to delete or deactivate your Facebook account, click Deactivate or Deletion.

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    Delete Facebook Account


If you Deactivate your Facebook account, it will hide from Facebook and only you can see it and if you delete your Facebook account, it will be deleted permanently, though all the data will erase gradually in almost 90 days. You can recover your account after deletion in a period of 30 days.

How to Delete Facebook account from Facebook mobile app

The process of deletion of a Facebook account from the app is almost the same as a browser. Unlike from browser, in-app, you have an option to download your all data on the Facebook app. Follow the following steps to easily delete or deactivate your Facebook account in the mobile app.

  • Open the Facebook app, log in to your account, if you‘re not already logged in.

  • Tap the three horizontal lines option(at the top right corner in some devices and in some devices, occurs in the bottom right corner).

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  • Tap settings&privacy and then click settings.

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    Delete Facebook account


  • Tap on the personal information and then select the option of account ownership and Control.

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    Delete Facebook account


  • A page will open, click the deactivation and deletion option, the same page will open that opens on the desktop.

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  • Choose your option that whether you want to delete or deactivate and confirm, you have to provide the password to confirm the deletion.