Facebook Says Users Can Leave -- If They Ask

Please read all the instructions that follows when you click the button for permanent deletion below.

If you want to skip most of the instructions, feel free to go to the expert page, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Oh right...you are hereby warned! :)

Feeling groovy? Go to the expert page.

In one of many articles covering the topic, Richard Koman of TopTechNews writes...

Facebook responded this week to user complaints that it's virtually impossible to delete an account from the social-networking Web site.

A Facebook group with 10,000 members had been advocating for a simple way to delete an account. "Ever tried to leave Facebook and found out they only allow you to 'deactivate' your account? All your personal data, including photos, interests, friends, etc., will still be saved indefinitely! You don't have to be a conspiracist to find this quite fishy (or simply annoying)!" a group message says.

"It's like the Hotel California," Nipon Das, a director at a biotechnology consulting firm, told The New York Times. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."

As always, this site (or the original Facebook group) is quoted!