Facebook: Deactivation Vs Delete

I often see that people tell me that they have deactivated their Facebook account to delete it permanently. It is just like a shock for me that how Facebook can delete your account permanently if you are asking for deactivation.
Someone said to me that when we deactivate our Facebook account for a long time it doesn't exist.
Just to make it clear that deactivation and deleting account both are not similar. If you think so then how you can activate your Facebook account if it has been deleted permanently by your deactivation. May be you are getting what I am trying to say. Well this post is just to clear the difference between both operations.

Deactivation of your profile is like you are putting your chat messenger offline that means your profile exists but people can't see. Your data exist on the server of Facebook but it is not available for Facebook users until your activate it again.

Deleting your account will remove all your data exist on the Facebook server. As it is deleted permanently then you can not recover your account again as you can do with a deactivated account.

Most of you know about deactivation of your account that can be done by following these steps

Sign in to your Facebook profile > account setting > Security> Deactivate Account
select "This is temporary. I'll be back." option in the reason field and confirm it.

To recover just Sign in as you normally do and you profile will be as it was.

There is no direct delete button or option so to delete your  account permanently. You have to follow this link (It is safe and Facebook's own but before any action please confirm your steps. I will not be responsible for any loss of data) http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account and follow the instructions.  If this link doesn't work, please let me know.

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Posted by : Swetank Rathi