Deactivate Facebook account, what happens?

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If you no longer want to use Facebook, you can either deactivate your account temporarily or have it completely deleted. You can find out what exactly happens with the individual options here.

Temporarily deactivate your own Facebook account.
Temporarily deactivate your own Facebook account.

What happens when you deactivate and delete

If you have your Account at Facebook want to close temporarily or permanently, you basically have two options:

  • The permanent solution would be to completely log out of Facebook, i.e. to have your account deleted. In doing so, you would include your published data such as your uploaded photos, the information about you or the information you received or received. irrevocably lose sent messages. You can find the deletion option in the so that deleting your account doesn't just happen with an unconscious click Help area of ​​Facebook under "Basics", "Managing your account", "Settings and deletion ..." for the first entry "How can I...".
  • Alternatively, you could only deactivate your Facebook account at first in order to either delete it completely or use it as before. If you deactivate, your data will still be backed up on the Facebook servers so that you can access them later can access again, although most of the data will no longer be displayed on Facebook during deactivation will. In addition, depending on the setting, you could continue to receive emails from Facebook telling you what has just happened, e.g. that you have been marked on a photo. To reactivate your account, all you have to do is log into Facebook as normal, whereupon you have both a e-mail as well as a message at the top of Facebook that your account is reactivated.

Temporarily deactivate your Facebook account

To your Facebook account To deactivate, you only have to do a few clicks:

  1. For that you would have to first Facebook call up and then possibly still log in.
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  3. Then go to your Facebook account settings by clicking the in the top right area Click the arrow that you see next to "Home" and then on the corresponding entry click.
  4. Now click on the "Security" category at the top left below "General" and then on the "Deactivate your account" link at the bottom of the main area.
  5. Now you would have to specify a reason at the very top for deactivating your account and, if necessary, explain this in more detail below.
  6. Then, indicate if you want to keep receiving emails from Facebook and click "Confirm" at the very bottom.
  7. Now all you have to do is enter your Facebook password to confirm the deactivation and then click on the "Deactivate now" button.

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