What exactly happens when you deactivate a facebook account?

[gtrocc]

I deactivated my facebook account recently. Will I still show up as tagged in my friends pictures or will the wall posts I posted on people's walls still be there? Will I still be listed as a sibling on my sister's profile? On people's walls that wrote on my wall, will it still say "so and so wrote on (my name)'s wall? Or will everything be gone? PLEASE help!

[lotrlover]

i'm pretty sure everything's gone, but if you log back into that account, it will reactivate

[UKgardener]

lotrlove has the right answer

[Rom Cartridge]

When you deactivate your account, your profile and all its associated information are immediately made inaccessible to other Facebook users. Although this means that you effectively disappear from the service, your information will remain saved by Facebook so that you can reactivate your account whenever you want.