How to Deactivate your Facebook Account

      How to Deactivate your Facebook Account 

Want to deactivate your account on Facebook? This guide will show you how to do it. 

 Once you have logged in to Facebook, open the Account menu on the top right of the page, and then select the option “Account Settings,” where shown by the red arrows in the next image: 

 Once you have done that, in the left hand menu, click on the Security option, which is the one indicated in the next image: 

 Then, near the bottom of the screen, click on the “Deactivate your account” link: 

 To complete the deactivation you will have to choose your reason for leaving from a list of options and then click on the Confirm button. This will open a pop up box asking for your password: Enter it and click on the Confirm button. Finally, you will be asked to read a captcha text and enter it. Do so and click on the Submit button. This will lead you to Facebook's home page, where you will see a message confirming that your account has been deactivated.

Deactivation allows users to make their whole account invisible for temporary reasons and to recover all their information when they return, including their “list of friends” and their photos, just as it was before they left. To recover all their stuff they just have to log in again after 24 hours have passed since the deactivation.