# How do you cancel a facebook account?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cancel-a-facebook-account/503095>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 15, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cancel-a-facebook-account/503095 "2009-07-15T08:29:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cancel-a-facebook-account/503095/1 "2009-07-15T08:29:29Z")

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I did the 'Deactivate Account" option, but my account is still there waiting. If I login using my initial email account, I get “welcome back” and however many months of messages still waiting. I want my facebook page gone, dead, non living, unavailible, die, I dont exist, it never happened, fuck off etc.

How do you cancel a facebook page???

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**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cancel-a-facebook-account/503095/2 "2009-07-15T08:39:02Z")

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[Here.](http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account)

[That was really easy to find, BTW.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=permanently+delete+facebook+account&aq=f&oq=&aqi=)

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**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cancel-a-facebook-account/503095/3 "2009-07-16T08:20:55Z")

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> [@cckerberos](#):
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> [Here.](http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account)
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> [That was really easy to find, BTW.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=permanently+delete+facebook+account&aq=f&oq=&aqi=)

Only if you’re clever enough to do a search.:smack:  
I wasted a lot of time trying to figure this out as well. Thanks for the link.