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How to completely delete Facebook from your life

sudshr47 August 16, 2018

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Buh-bye, Facebook. It’s been real. 

So you’ve had it with endless scrolling through the News Feed, notifications that wake you up in the middle of the night, memories that remind you how little your life has changed over the years, and groups that are just too big and you don’t even know why you joined in the first place. 

In short, you want to delete Facebook from your life. 

It’s a big decision, and it can be pretty scary, but we assure you: It can be done. 

Before you start, though, think long and hard on whether you want to delete or merely deactivate your Facebook account. 

Deactivating Facebook is fairly easy and painless. If you do it, your Timeline and other info will disappear from Facebook — but only until you reactivate your account. Yes, this means all your data will remain stored somewhere on Facebook’s servers.  Read more…

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