With Facebook users becoming more concerned about the privacy ramifications of all the updates Facebook releases, more users are curious about deleting their account. While it is not a difficult process–one click on a link will get rid of the account–it is permanent and will erase everything. Because of this, it is important to back everything up from your Facebook account to your hard drive.

What many people do is upload photos from their phone right to Facebook or they just upload pictures right to Facebook without saving on their hard drive. When you delete your Facebook account, you'll lose all your photos and information, so just make sure you've got it. To do this, right click on the image and then hit "Save As." This will save the photos on your page.

Deleting Facebook

In the past, Facebook had a link in the bottom left hand corner of your profile page that allowed you to delete it. However, for some reason, they removed that link. That doesn't mean you can't delete your page, though. It just means that they are trying to prevent people from leaving.

Go to this link. It will take you to the "Delete Account" page. There's a warning that anything you do is permanent and there's nothing you can do once you delete the page. Hit the submit button. When you do that, a contact will be sent to Facebook and they will delete the page for you. However, they won't delete it if you're still using it. Therefore, it is important to stay away from your Facebook account for a significant amount of time. Once Facebook realizes you've not been using the service for a while, they'll delete the page and you'll no longer have membership there. You can always sign up again, though.