Things to do before deleting your Facebook account

How much time do you spend on Facebook every day? Are you taking advantage or wasting time on Facebook? You want to get rid of it? In fact, many of us want to do this but very few people actually do it because whether you want to admit it or not, your life is dependent on it. From remembering your friend's birthday to keeping in touch with your loved ones far away, there are many factors that make people continue to use this service. "Breaking up" Facebook is much more difficult than you think.

But after the incident last week, a company called Cambridge Analytica gathered information from over 50 million Facebook users to influence the 2016 presidential election, so it's time to protect you and relatives from Facebook. Even deleting your Facebook account does not make you exit the tracking of companies like this.

Give up Facebook, speak easier than do, but if you are determined and want to keep some memories, contact your relatives, here are some tips you should make before deleting your Facebook account.

Download data

Before preparing to enter the world without Facebook, you keep a copy of all the data created on this. To do this, on the desktop version of Facebook, go to the Settings tab, then click on the General option. At the bottom of the General Account Settings menu, you will see a hyperlink to download all Facebook data.

These data include basic things like status and all photos you have uploaded to your account. It also contains information you may never know Facebook has collected such as political parties, IP addresses and related searches. If this information makes you awake, then it's time to leave Facebook.

Sort download data from Facebook

When downloading data, you will get a messy photo and video folder. Take the time to rearrange these data so that you can easily find photos from events. Save them on your computer or external hard drive and sort by events, dates and locations. This way, you can create your own version of the "On This Day" feature and can read it whenever you want.

Check your account using Facebook as login information

However, you still have a way to test all these services and applications. Go back to the Settings page and click the Apps tab to see which services have access to the account. Click "Logged in with Facebook" to find what you need. Be sure to set up a new login for each application or service before "saying goodbye" to Facebook.

In fact, we always have friends and relatives who only contact via Facebook. That's not embarrassing because everyone is like that, so before deleting your account, get the contact information of everyone you want. To keep in touch with them you need a little effort, such as calling a few times a week so they know you care about them.

Stay in touch with family and friends

Do you admit that you only know your friends' birthdays when you see the birthday cake icon displayed on the Facebook message board every morning? And there are many friends who don't know their birthdays because they don't set up notifications. But there is a way to track birthdays of friends and relatives without Facebook.

Go back to the old days and use paper calendars and diaries

Just go to the Birthdays tab under the Events page and record the birthday of the person you care about in the paper calendar. Then go to the Past tab in the Events menu and record any events you've ever visited before and want to return.

If you like sharing your daily activities with friends, write it in your journal. You can still share your thoughts, speak up views without worrying about any malicious programs stealing information.

If you really want to break up with Facebook, you need to be sure to delete the account instead of disabling it. It sounds the same but they are completely different, see the article to understand these two concepts. To disable the account, access the Settings tab in the General menu, from here click on the Edit button next to Manage Account.

Be sure to delete and not disable your Facebook account

Here, you can deactivate your account so you can use it again if you want and your profile is still visible to others. To completely exit Facebook, you need to delete your account, see the article to know how to request a complete termination of your account and you will not be able to retrieve access to that account and the data will be deleted by Facebook. period of up to 90 days.

Ở đây, bạn có thể hủy kích hoạt tài khoản để có thể sử dụng lại nếu muốn và profile của bạn vẫn hiện thị với người khác. Để hoàn toàn thoát khỏi Facebook, bạn cần xóa tài khoản, xem bài viết để biết cách yêu cầu chấm dứt hoàn toàn tài khoản và bạn sẽ không thể lấy lại được quyền truy cập vào tài khoản đó và dữ liệu sẽ bị Facebook xóa trong khoảng thời gian lên đến 90 ngày. 

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