I think it also comes back to the nature of social media accounts and not just Facebook. There's essentially no reason you need to delete a hotmail account, you can just completely ignore it instead. That means you never have a devil's choice of not deleting your hotmail account to keep access to xbox games.

Social media accounts are by their nature a large amount of photos, posts, tags, personal info that other people will see including employers, immigration officials, future dates. There are very good reasons you may want to delete it (and prevent future tags, wall posts) rather than just abandon it, so it becomes more problematic if you cannot without other penalties.

Right, but a great way to diffuse that anger would be to _not_ have a single account system, an idea Facebook seems to refuse outright. This is not a move a company like Facebook can make at least currently, given how little users trust them with their data

Great question. If I delete my Google account, will I lose access to websites that I logged into them with? Especially if its a Gmail account, I can't even retrieve with Forgot your Pass, huh?