Facebook testing Delete Account button

Facebook testing "Delete Account" button

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 27 Jul 2010 12:38 User comments (8)

While Facebook users have long complained about the inability to completely delete an account, it appears the social networking giant has taken that into account, testing a full "Delete Account" button in addition to the current "Deactivate Account" button.

In the past, to delete your account required deactivating it and then getting in touch with a Facebook staff member to finally have it truly deleted. After that, you have to not access your page for 14 days for it to stay completely deleted.

One-click will make the process significantly easier.

For now, the button can only be seen by a few select users, as it is part of a test.

Says Facebook: "…We are constantly testing new ideas, including the placement of various features. One of these recent tests included variations of the delete account option for a very small percentage of people."

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127.7.2010 02:50

elbald90

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i dont understand why this wasnt available from the start

227.7.2010 04:22

davidike

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Originally posted by elbald90:
i dont understand why this wasnt available from the start

advertising, they farm your details then sell them on much like the UK government do.

327.7.2010 06:29

KillerBug

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These bastards won't secure your information, and then they refuse to remove it from their servers. At this point, I will never trust them again, but maybe they can prevent others from getting to this point.

427.7.2010 18:10

ROMaster2

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I've only registered a fake account to access things when I need to. Other than that, I have Facebook completely blocked.

527.7.2010 23:09

Zealousi

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They knew if there was a delete button people would use it, guess they have seen i deleted my facebook account to get a life t shirt

628.7.2010 12:04

ZippyDSM

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And zippy is testing brains button........*push push*
BBWWAAIINNSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

72.8.2010 05:13

dsstrlght

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There seems to be no simple way to delete your Afterdawn profile either, nor many parts of them. I went through and laboriously edited all my blogs to be blank but couldn't actually delete them. When I tried to go and edit old comments on shoutboxes, I couldn't do that either. If I replaced a comment with a dot (the closest thing it lets you do to blanking it, it left didn't truly delete my comment, it just added a new "." comment to the most recent shoutbox pages. Yes I know about letting the newsletter go to spam for several months. But that just deactivates the profile, not really takes it away. And unlike a lot of people I don't feel the need to go around pissing people off just to be banned.

82.8.2010 12:11

Slippster

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word up.
facebook sucks balls.
so does myspace & all social net sites.
its all data mining.

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