Deactivate Facebook account: How to deactivate your Facebook account?

If you decide you no longer want to use Facebook, there are a few simple ways to deactivate your account. Remember, deactivating your account means you will hide all your information on Facebook As a result, no one will be able to contact you on Facebook or see what you share, including your timeline, status updates, and photos. If you later decide to reactivate your Facebook-account, you will be able to reactivate your account and recover your old information.

Steps to Deactivate Facebook Account:

You can deactivate your Facebook account by following a few simple steps. The steps are as follows:

1. First, login to Facebook and click on your profile picture on the top right corner of Facebook.

2. Then select Settings and Privacy, from here click Settings.

3. Then click on privacy, then click on your Facebook information.

Click Deactivation and Delete.

4. Now select Deactivate Account option, then click Continue to Deactivate Account and follow the instructions to confirm.

Finally you will get a message like below.

When to deactivate Facebook account:

No one else can see the Facebook profile.
Some information, such as messages you sent to friends, may still be visible.
Facebook friends can still see deactivated Facebook accounts in their friends list. It's only visible to your friends, but it can only be seen from their friends list
Group admins may be able to view posts and comments of deactivate Facebook accounts with names.
Oculus products or your Oculus information cannot be accessed with a deactivated Facebook account. That is, if your account is deactivated, you will not be able to use your Facebook account to access here.
Pages that are controlled only with the deactivate Facebook account will also be deactivated

What are the advantages of keeping Facebook account inactive?

If you have more than one Facebook account, you can keep one and deactivate the others. If you ever need to activate your inactive account, you can easily do so.

See below how to activate your inactive Facebook account.

If you delete your Facebook account, you cannot reactivate it. So it is better to deactivate the unused Facebook account.

How to reactivate your Facebook account?

If you wish to reactivate your Facebook account after deactivating your account, you must log in to Facebook again or reactivate your account at any time by using your Facebook account to log in elsewhere.

Note here specifically, you must have access to the email address or mobile number you used to log in to complete the reactivation.

If you are the only person and have full control of the inactive Page, you can also reactivate your Page after reactivating your Facebook account.

However, once your Facebook account is permanently deleted, there is no way to restart it.

How to delete Facebook account?

If you deactivate your Facebook account it is not completely deleted. When you deactivate your account and you decide to reactivate your account, Facebook saves all your settings, photos and information. Deactivating your account doesn't remove your information from Facebook—it's just hidden. However, you can permanently delete your account with no option for recovery.

See the difference between account deletion and deactivation

If you are sure that you are permanently in your Facebook account

If you want to delete it permanently, then only you can complete the task of deleting your Facebook account.

To delete Facebook account, follow this link on Facebook's the Delete My Account page. Clicking on the link will bring up a window like below, if you want to save photos and posts from your account, click on Download Data. Then click on Delete Account.