# How Does One Un-Join Facebook? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 6, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539 "2009-05-06T14:11:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/1 "2009-05-06T14:11:31Z")
Goddammit! i’m spending hours trying to un-join, can’t find the information. Please help. Any clues would be most welcome. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/2 "2009-05-06T14:19:24Z")
> **[Log into Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account?show_form=delete_account)** > > Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/3 "2009-05-06T14:26:12Z")
Thank you. Funny, I just went there and got the “are you sure” box that required my password and confirmation and it kept coming up over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/4 "2009-05-06T19:51:28Z")
You don’t “un-join” Facebook any more than you “un-join” the Mafia. (If you’re tagged in anyone else’s photos, for example, you’re there forever) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Philosopher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/5 "2009-05-06T20:15:23Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > You don’t “un-join” Facebook any more than you “un-join” the Mafia. > > (If you’re tagged in anyone else’s photos, for example, you’re there forever) I think unjoining MySpace was more impossible: you jump through hoop after hoop to try and cancel the account. They do everything very sneakily as well - when you click the button to cancel your account, a box pops up saying, ‘are you sure? Click yes or no _(click yes if you want to stay with MySpace_)’, they put the relevant ‘cancelling’ text in light grey so it’s hard to read, etc. Then even after officially canceling my account, I still get emails for my account name. In order to request that the emails stop, you have to reinstate your account! ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/6 "2009-05-06T20:24:14Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > You don’t “un-join” Facebook any more than you “un-join” the Mafia. > > (If you’re tagged in anyone else’s photos, for example, you’re there forever) You can remove tags on photos if they link to you, as opposed to say some generic non-link text descriptor tag. IIRC, go to the tagged pic and there should be a link that says “Remove tag”. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/7 "2009-05-06T20:26:06Z")
> [@The\_Great\_Philosopher](#): > > Then even after officially canceling my account, I still get emails for my account name. In order to request that the emails stop, you have to reinstate your account! I had a different experience with cancelling my myspace account. I canceled it at the beginning of March. After a few annoying windows with all those “are you sure?” questions, it got closed after a day or two. I haven’t received any annoying messages through email. Maybe you can filter out those messages to your Spam folder? ---
**Author:** ![redshift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbce88/32.png) [@redshift](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redshift)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/8 "2009-05-06T20:30:22Z")
Once you join, you never really leave. I don’t really see the point in keeping you though… if you’re an inactive person then you’re not really benefiting them. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-un-join-facebook/495539/9 "2009-05-07T17:18:50Z")
I had about 3 emails from them today, they are now part of my spam filter.