Deactivation is not Deletion

I deactivated my Facebook account this morning.

Sort of.

Here's the confirmation email I received:

Hi Kim,

You have deactivated your Facebook account. You can reactivate your account at any time by logging into Facebook using your old login email and password. You will be able to use the site like you used to.

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

So. . .all I have to do is log in like I always logged in and everything is still there, ready for me to move right back in.  I want my account deleted.  Wonder if that is even possible.  Anybody know?

Comments

[ellen b]

I hope someone out there knows the answer. I'd like to deactivate my account, too.

[rebecca]

I signed up for facebook a long time ago and wanted to delete almost immediately, but could never figure out how to do anything more than deactivate it. At least once, I woke up to several requests in my email for people to add me as a friend, and found out that somehow (not by me!) I'd been reactivated. Kind of a pain!

[rebecca]

Okay! Tim Challies linked this piece this morning.

[Elle]

I'm headed to Tim Challies' post next b/c I had this same question. I do know that deactivation at the least takes you off of people's friends' lists. I received an email about that one today.

[PhyllisSims]

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