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title: "Can you permanently deactivate or delete a Facebook account?"  
description: "Can you permanently deactivate or delete a Facebook account?"  
author: "Amara Halston"  
published: 2018-01-05  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32565/can-you-permanently-deactivate-or-delete-a-facebook-account  
category: "social networking"  
tags: ["facebook", "social media"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Can you permanently deactivate or delete a Facebook account?

Can you permanently deactivate or [delete](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34101/xceed-datagrid-with-insert-update-delete) a Facebook account?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

**Deleting your account and deactivating your [Facebook](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32568/was-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-s-original-idea) account are both different things, so if you are confused about it I can explain you.**

![Can you permanently deactivate or delete a Facebook account?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/25e14690-649e-47ef-ba5e-7115d3efd846/images/3a7d5388-10f8-4aef-b227-bf62dabfe0ef.png)**\**

[**Deactivation of your Facebook account**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31408/how-to-deactivate-a-facebook-account) is temporary deactivation of your account and after deactivating your Facebook account **you can anytime login on Facebook with same username and password and all your posts will be backed up.****\****[Deleting Facebook account](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31409/how-to-delete-my-facebook-account)** is a permanent deletion and you can’t reactivate your Facebook account with same username and password. However, **Facebook takes almost 3 months to erase all your posts from Facebook** and if in between these erasing process if you log in to Facebook account your account deletion request gets canceled. \
**So, as you were asking you permanently deactivate or delete a Facebook account? Yes, you can delete permanently deactivate or delete a Facebook account.** **\****"Hope it was informative"**


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