Q&A for How to Permanently Delete a Facebook Account

You don't have to wait 14 days, the account will disappear immediately. This term is for that case if you change your mind and want to activate your profile again.

No. When you "permanently delete" your Facebook account, you delete all traces to it and will not be able to log into it again.

No message will be provided to any of your contacts. They just won't be able to see your profile anymore.

Go to the account page and click the ellipses button next to "Message." Then, click the option that says "Report." You can then report the page as someone pretending to be you. Facebook will remove the page shortly afterwards.

Yes, messages and photos still remain. However, your name will be changed to ‘Facebook User‘.

You don't need to delete your account, you just need to change your password, and you might want to consider enabling two step verification , but regardless of whether you want to delete your account or not, you will need to read this article to reset your password.

No. They are in your friends’ personal inboxes. You have no way to delete them.

I'm sorry for your loss, this article will help you delete his account. If you don't know his password, this article might be able to help.

Once you've deleted your profile, then your tags will disappear. Your name might still appear in the person's photo description, but it won't link to any profile page.

You can save your pictures in any backup file offline before permanently deleting.

Yes. Deletion of your Facebook account will lead to the deletion of your account on Messenger. You could, however, sign up for Messenger with your phone number.

To reset your passwords, follow the directions here , then just delete the accounts that you don't want.

Turn on 2-step verification. When accessing your account from an unknown device, 2 step will require a one-time use code, sent to you via email, text or phone call. Without the secondary code, they are automatically denied and nothing needs be changed. Deleting cookies also will trigger this to be done on any previously know device.

You can log out of your wife's account and then log into yours.

While you can create a new account, if Facebook finds out that they previously banned you, then they will delete the new account.

You can use your phone number to reset your account if your phone number is associated with it; this article describes the process of resetting your Facebook account password.

You can if you want, but it's not necessary, you just need to Change Your Facebook Password and you can also Activate 2 Step Verification in Facebook .

You could, and it might help to read wikiHow's article on defeating a Facebook addiction to help you get over your attachment to the site.

If you delete your Facebook account, then all data associated with it, including your friends list, will be deleted.

It will take a few weeks for your account to be de-indexed from search engines like Google.

Yes, deleting one account should leave your other account unaffected, since they both use different emails.

Yes, your Gmail account will be unlinked from your Facebook account once you delete it.

You can Report a Fake Account on Facebook , and if you want to make sure your account is extra secure, then you should Activate 2 Step Verification in Facebook .

Yes, but you have to wait 14 days after you deleted your old account so that your email gets cleared from the system.

You can't, since you don't have any way to get in again. The only way is if there are photos of yourself or any other info on it that clearly identifies the owner, you can contact Facebook about it and show your ID and anything that's proof you owned it, but if that doesn't work, just forget about it and move on.

If you have a phone number connected to the account, you can call Facebook support and get your account back.

You can memorialize her account instead of deleting it, if you still want her page up. In Facebook's help center, there is a page on memorializing, click the link within it, and there will be a form where you verify your information. The form has the option to delete the deceased person's account or keep it up as a memorial page.

Yes, you can. When you delete an account, the username and email become reusable again. If you didn't post anything that's against Facebook's guidelines, they won't prevent you from doing this.

They should have different email addresses and possibly names. Also, look at the profile page of the inactive account, if it's inactive it should have no new activity posted in a long time. The active account should have posted recently. Make sure to look at the accounts' timelines, friends, and the time they were created.

If you're sure they are impersonating him, report it under the reason "Pretending to Be Someone", and "A Friend". It's against Facebook's guidelines to create an account that impersonates someone. Keep in mind that some people can have the same name as another, and simply using the same first and last name as your husband doesn't always mean impersonation. If they are using a picture of him or other personal details that match his, report it and possibly contact Facebook via their phone number to verify your husband.