Facebook Leak: Reason Why You Should Delete And Download Your Data

If you are a Facebook fan that makes use of social media casually or you have abandoned social media completely. Then it is strongly recommended you read this article to the end to know about recent Facebook leaks that involve information and data of its user leakage which will let you know either you should delete your account completely and save your Facebook data elsewhere.

This article will lead you through ways on how you can delete and download your Facebook data or how to download your data and delete the Facebook account completed at your own wish follow up to know about the recent Facebook leak.

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Is Facebook In Trouble?

It was brought to notice that a leaker has claimed again that they have gathered and given out information of up to 500 million Facebook user’s to people that are in need for free. That most people seriously care about their information to talk of being leaked out.

The leaker claims to share the info out free which you don’t know if you are part of or if your Facebook account is part of the 500 million Facebook data that will be leaked out.

Some of the data that are claimed to be leaked entail phone numbers of the listed 500 million Facebook users and other related data like names and others.

If this is true or not, it’s good to consider whether you should exit the platform or social by deleting your account and have your data saved elsewhere or not.

Seems this is not the first time such things are happening which seems to have happened before by leaking user’s data out.

So if you are thinking of or you will like to download your data and delete the account or your account follow the procedures below.

How To Download Your Facebook Data

If you are using Facebook on your mobile phone it’s recommended to switch to the Facebook desktop version so that you can download your data easily.
Once you’ve log-in to your Facebook on your desktop, locate the menu button on the top right corner of the Facebook desktop page.
Find the options menu Setting & Privacy switch on the button and click on settings.
You will see Facebook information on the left side of the page. Click on it.
To get your data or Information download click on view.
Select from the category the info or data you will like to attach with the data you want to download.
You have the boxes on the left side of the page to make your selection.
Download requests can also be selected from the option with some other options like videos and images with more options.
The date range of the Facebook data you will like to download too can also be selected, and if you don’t set it that means you wish to download all your Facebook data.
After you’ve finished configuring everything you can now click on create a file to begin the download request.
The creation of the file can take up to some hours or days if possible, which Facebook will send you a notification or you will be notified when your data has been completely created.
Which you can now visit to pick up a download request by providing your Facebook account password before your download can start.

Yes, you have just downloaded your Facebook data if you wish to delete the Facebook account permanently after you’ve gotten your data then follow the steps below.

How To Permanently Delete Facebook Account

On the process used to get your data, you should see the account devastation on the third page.
If you can’t recall then follow the first three steps that are stated above.
Select the Deactivation And Deletion option.
Tap on the option to permanently delete your account, and click on continue.
On the next page click on delete, account provides your password to engage the process, and click on the continue button.

You have just permanently deleted your account but Facebook still offers a request to stop the account deletion with 30 days of altering such commands.

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