A CNN article drew attention to the fact that Facebook privacy concerns are causing people to delete their Facebook accounts — if they can find the mysterious Delete Button!

If you type in the phrase “How do I” on Google, one of the first suggested searches that comes up is “How do I delete my Facebook account,” a factoid discovered by Danny Sullivan, a blogger at Search Engine Land.

So, we decided to do a tongue-in-cheek test, as of right now. Here are the results for the US, Canada, the UK and France.

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Facebook allows you to deactivate your account. But that deactivated account will remain forever on Facebook’s servers and will be reactivated if you sign in again.

Unless you permanently delete it.

So, how do you permanently delete your Facebook account?

There used to be a link to delete an account in Settings or when you deactivated your account (it appeared there after Canada said they would not allow Facebook to operate on its soil unless a user could permanently delete all its info) but you won’t find it now.

It’s still there, but hidden from view.

Here’s how to permanently delete your Facebook account:

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Well, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, after stressing many times in the past how important privacy is to Facebook, has revealed his real thinking concerning privacy: he feels that social norms are changing and people are beginning to be more accepting of sharing personal info online, and so he is just adopting this norm, hence the recent privacy changes on Facebook that defaults your personal profile as public instead of as private.

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