While 2023 may rhyme with good tech resolutions, this new year is surely a chance to take a step back from social media use, or even delete certain accounts. But the platforms make this manipulation often difficult to access.
Facebook is the strongest in this area, it takes 9 steps before you can delete your account. To permanently delete your Facebook account, click on your profile picture at the top right of Facebook. Select Settings and Privacythen click settings. On the left of the screen, click Your Facebook information then in Deactivation and removal. Choose Delete account and click Continue with account deletion. Click on Delete account, enter your password, then click continue.
However, this manipulation is not activated immediately. You can always recover your account within 30 days by logging in again.
Facebook advises that once the account is deleted, you will not be able to reactivate your account, profile, photos, posts and videos. To have access to all your content, remember to download your Facebook data before deleting your account.
On Twitter, there are two possible options: deactivate or permanently delete your account. The deactivation lasts 30 days, but the account can still be accessed. However, if the user does not log in within these 30 days, the account will be deleted at the end of this period. Deactivating your Twitter account means that your username and public profile will no longer be visible on the social network.
To delete your account, click the icon Plus on the left of the screen, then on Configurations and support in the dropdown menu, then Settings and privacy. From the tab Your accountclick on DEACTIVATE your account. At the bottom of the screen, click To disable then enter your password to confirm.
Permanent account deletion occurs after 30 days. You can restore your Twitter account during this same period after deactivation. After 30 days, you will not be able to reactivate your old account and you will no longer have access to your previous tweets.
Please note that deleting your Twitter account will not remove your information from search engines. Before deleting the account, you can also Download your Twitter data.
There are also two possibilities: deactivate or delete your account. To delete your account on an Android device, you do not have to go to the application but to instagram help page and click Delete your account. Once on the page, a dropdown menu offers you to choose from several reasons for your departure. All you have to do is click Delete.
To delete your account on iPhone: press your profile photo at the bottom right to access your profile, then at the top right on the icon with the three lines to select settings. Go ahead Billafter Delete account Go ahead Proceed with account deletion. You must provide a reason why you want to leave Instagram. You will then need to enter your password and click one last time on Delete account.
To deactivate your account, you must go through the first three steps again. On several occasions, it is proposed to deactivate your account instead of deleting it. It is possible to save and download all your databefore deleting your account.
Tik Tok
To delete your account on TikTok, you need to go to your profile at the bottom right of the screen in the app. Then press the 3 lines icon at the top right. To select Settings and Privacy after Bill and finally Delete account. Complete the removal form offered by TikTok, then press Follow. Enter your password to validate the deletion. It is also possible to deactivate your account with the same manipulations at the beginning.
The user has a maximum of 30 days to reactivate his account. You can also download your data before deleting the account. To do this, in your profile, select the tab Privacyclick on Download your datayou must choose a TXT or JSON format, and then validate by clicking on Request your data. You will find all your data in ZIP format.
Videos that you have posted or recorded are not included in the download. To save them, go to your profile and manually save them one by one: click on the video you want to download, hit the 3-dot icon and select Save video. The selected TikTok video will be directly in your phone gallery.
Source: BFM TV
