Getting Off Facebook: An In-Depth Guide
Getting off Facebook isn't easy nor simple. You do not need to go to the extremes that I did to simply delete or deactivate your Facebook account.
As long as you don’t have an issue with your Profile that does not into Facebook’s rigid help system or creates some kind of glitch (as in my case) there are ways to minimize your Facebook interactions, therefore making yourself less valuable as a collection data points.
Turning off advertising on Facebook is a good first step. The steps for turning off Facebook ads are described in Part 1 of How To Get Off Facebook. You can find the tool for turning off Facebook ads (as well as ads on some other online services) here.
Another approach is varying degrees of “Facebook diets.” Diets usually involve simply using Facebook less. A step above this is “benign neglect,” simply stopping using Facebook for a long period of time.
There are several paths within Facebook leading to the links for downloading your data and to deleting or deactivating your account.
These links are located on the left side of the page.
You can find the deactivate link though the Facebook Activity Log or under the Settings or from your Personal Settings page, where the link is located at the bottom of the settings box.
Getting Off Facebook: Downloading Your Facebook Info
At the risk of jumping too far ahead, I’ll mention here that Facebook allows you to download a copy of ALL of your Facebook information.
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