How can I delete my Facebook account?

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The answer is that you can't. Well not yet anyways.

The Canadian privacy commission took Facebook on, on all their privacy violations, such as not being able to delete your account and told them they had to change or basically not be able to offer Facebook in Canada. So now Facebook, worldwide, is changing all these privacy issues to be compliant with Canadian law.

This is very recent and their deadline to change their practices is by next summer. So until then you can only deactivate your account unfortunately.

Edit: it looks like Facebook is ahead of the game and has provided the Delete account option before their deadline. Will has the link there.