So do you hate your social media accounts just as much as I do
You're in luck today. I'm going to show you how to go about deactivating those accounts or just deleting them in general
But first, let's cover how to delete your personal information from the internet
so data brokers can't just buy and sell your information around. So first, download the Permission Slip app from Consumer Reports
Sign in with an email that you typically use to make other accounts online with
After that, you're going to be presented with some options of popular companies and data brokers that could potentially have your information
Now, depending on the company you selected, you could have the option to prohibit them from selling your data online or just deleting their account that you have with them outright
Now, from here, the app's going to ask you to fill in some information about yourself. I know what you're thinking. I'm trying to get rid of this information
Why am I adding more? It's just so these data brokers can properly identify your requests and so they can pretty much take care of the information accordingly
Now, it may take some time for this request to be processed, but it is a general step in the right direction towards getting your stuff down from the Internet
Now let cover how to deactivate or delete your Facebook or Instagram accounts And for the purposes of this video let just pretend that you already unlinked your third party accounts from your social media and saved all the good stuff that you wanna keep from there
You did do that, right? Good. Let's wipe it off the face of the earth
For Facebook, log into your account, then go to settings and privacy, go to account center
select personal details under account settings, and then select account ownership and control
From there, you're gonna choose the profile you're trying to delete, and then it's gonna give you the option
to either deactivate your account or just delete it permanently. If you delete your Facebook and you get second thoughts
don't worry because you do have a 30-day grace period to basically get it back. All you gotta do is simply sign back into your account
But Meta obviously owns Facebook and Instagram, so the process is virtually the same over there
but let's still cover it for you. For Instagram, go to your profile, tap the menu icon on the top right
that's the three stacked lines, tap account center, go to personal details
go to account ownership and control, tap deactivation or deletion, and then the same goes for over there
you can either deactivate your account or delete it 30 day grace period, yada, yada, yada
Now for deleting either account, you'll likely have to enter some login information and some reasoning as to why you wanna get rid of them
but that's pretty much all you gotta do. We'll see you in the next one