How to Quit Facebook and Delete Your Profile

Facebook is one of the most popular social network websites on the Internet, quickly replacing competitor Myspace as the network for college and university students. The Facebook websites allows individuals to create a Facebook personal profile and interact with Facebook friends through Facebook comments, messages, photos and videos. Some individuals find that using Facebook takes up too much of their personal and school time. In this Facebook guide, I'll show you how to easily and quickly quit Facebook and delete your Facebook profile to free up your personal time for more rewarding tasks.

First, determine why you wish to quit Facebook and delete your Facebook profile. Closing and deleting a Facebook account can leave some individuals feeling socially isolated and friendless. Create personal life goals that you wish to meet through Facebook (e.g. keep in touch with high school friends that live in other cities). Check to see how well Facebook meets your goals over the course of a month.

Second, notify all of your Facebook friends that you are quitting Facebook and deleting your Facebook profile. Closing a Facebook account affects not just you, but your Facebook friends as well. Give your Facebook friends time to establish other means of contacting you, such as email or instant messaging.

Third, download and save any important Facebook data or private information from the social network website that you wish to keep after you have quit Facebook. You will not be able to login or access Facebook after you have closed your Facebook account and deleted your Facebook profile.

Fourth, learn how to deactive your Facebook account and delete your Facebook profile. Click "Settings" in the top right-hand corner of your Facebook website. Scroll down and click "deactivate" in the lower right-hand corner of the Facebook site.

Be sure to answer Facebook's questions in the dialog box that pops up regarding why you want to quit Facebook and deactive your profile. Click the OK button after the warning regarding deleting a Facebook profile. Your Facebook profile has now been deactivated and you have successfully quit Facebook.

Finally, don't find a new time waster after learning how to delete your Facebook profile and quit Facebook. Devote extra time to your personal hobbies, past times or nonprofit volunteer activities.