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Whether you’re trying to get a job and worried about snoopy new bosses, sick of maintaining a virtual profile constantly bombarded with increasingly useless updates and pings from people that you decreasingly actually know, fed up with Facebook’s attitude<\/a> towards their users<\/a>, disgusted with your addiction to it, or just want you, your personal details and habits, and photos, out, deleting your Facebook profile can be done in a few easy steps:<\/p>\n 1. Just go here<\/a> 4. Put in your password and enter the words from the security check. 5. Hit okay. 6. You then get bumped to the Facebook login screen. 7. Look outside! It’s a beautiful day. Go enjoy it. Perhaps call up a friend you haven’t seen in a while and catch up on each other’s lives over coffee.<\/p>\n Your account is then “deactivated” for two weeks. Don’t login for those two weeks and then it will be permanently deleted.<\/p>\n Facebook sometimes changes the procedures for exiting the social networking service, but the Facebook group “How to permanently delete your facebook account<\/a>” should have the most up to date method if the link above goes dead.<\/p>\n
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