How to cancel a Facebook account

How to cancel a Facebook account

Canceling a Facebook account

A Facebook user may want to temporarily or permanently cancel his account, and the account cancellation altogether includes the inability of users to search for the name of the user whose account was canceled due to his disappearance, the disappearance of his comments that he inserted from his canceled account, in addition to the disappearance of his personal photos, cover photos, Diaries, and mobile phone alike, as no one is allowed to chat with him either in writing or by phone.

In the midst of the general openness of the network and the lack of privacy to some extent, some see Facebook as an untrustworthy site, so they resort to canceling their account, and we will talk in this article about the meaning of deactivating the account, in addition to how it is, and what are the reasons behind this.

The difference between temporary and final cancellation

Cancellation of the temporary account differs from the cancellation of the final account in how, and the time required to complete the step, for example, the temporary deactivation of the account is through the push of a button, and it can also be easily retrieved by re-entering the usual login using the email and password, so that the user finds his account as he left Completely in terms of images, comments and posts, as for deleting the account and canceling it permanently, it needs to be fourteen days during which the account is disabled and then deleted, and it cannot be completely restored as long as the login to it was not registered during this period.

Steps to cancel a Facebook account

• If you want to delete your account temporarily, you should go to the checkout menu at the far left of the screen if you are using Arabic, or at the far right if you are using the English language, then click on it.
• Choose the General Account Setting icon from the list of options.
• Click on the Security or Security button and then choose the Deactive Your Account icon. The site will ask you to enter a password to confirm that you are the real user of the account.
• After entering the password, press the Continue or Continue button.
• The site will take you to a new page to choose the reasons for the cancellation, you must choose and then the cancellation is actually done.
• If you want to permanently delete your account, you must visit the following link: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account.
• Facebook will ask you for a password to confirm that you are already the personal user of the account.

Reasons for canceling Facebook account

• For security and privacy reasons, the user may feel that his personal content of information and photos is no longer personal, or that he has stolen his information from hackers and the like.
• Personal reasons for the time, the user may see that Facebook takes more than five hours of his daily time, for example, so he wants to use his time with other things that are more useful.
• The desire to move to other social media.
• Upset about the frequent messages from anonymous users and aliases.