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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by balls187 on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:23PM (#14395798)
You can't delete your account. You can disable it, and the moment you log back it, it's as if you have never left.
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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by kowdermeister on Monday May 22, 2017 @05:59PM (#14397263)
You definitely can:

https://www.facebook.com/help/250563911970368?helpref=hc_glo...

There used to be a two week period where it worked as you described, not sure if it's still in place.

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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by zentiggr on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:35PM (#14395894)
You can delete your account... I had one that I requested deleted back in 2009, and then had "reason" to get back on, and when I created my new account my prior data from 2009- was not there.
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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by a2decrow on Monday May 22, 2017 @05:06PM (#14396943)
You can remove it from public view and remove your ability to log into it, but you can't remove any data. Facebook was never designed to "delete" that data, hence all you can really do is permanently disable your account, with the illusion of having it deleted.
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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by bauerd on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:54PM (#14396025)
Doesn't imply that they deleted your node from the graph, only that you created a new one that might have gotten linked to the first ("disabled") one.
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