How to delete your Facebook account

Lest readers think I'm only posting this because I'm a lousy curmudgeon and the only one on earth that has no interest in online 'social networking', do this:

Go to www.google.com, type in "how do i", and check out the suggested search terms - #6 as I write this. Looks like out of all the myriad things people are looking to find out how to do, dumping Farcebook is a biggy. Perhaps finally people are questioning whether they are using Facebook to keep in touch with their friends and family, or whether Facebook is using them instead.

Keep in mind that deactivating your account is not the same as deleting it. If you deactivate, if you log on again everything is right there where you left it. Once deleted, after two weeks everything should be gone - hopefully from their databases as well. And Facebook doesn't make it plain how to delete your account, for obvious reasons. So here I come to save the day.

First you must be logged in to your Facebook account. Then, while logged in, go to http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Voila. You should get a confirmation e-mail from Facebook, then it will take about two weeks. In the meantime, if you experience withdrawal pains, have a read :

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue

*update: "how do I delete Facebook" and "How do I quit Facebook" are #1 now. Yay!

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American Idol

Well, thank God Aaron Kelly's out. Not because I don't like his voice, and not because I don't think he's a good kid. But what the hell is up with the stupid hairstyles nowadays? He goes from looking like a damn rooster (like Ryan Seacrest with his almost 'faux-hawk') to looking like some twat from an Axe commercial with his hair poking up in a hundred different directions.

I so wish this stupid fad would pass. It is stupider than the Beatles cut of the 60's, the afro of the 70's, and the middle-parted feathered-back hair of the 80's by leaps and bounds. Trust me, when you look back in about 10 or 20 years you're going to say "Christ, I looked like an idiot!"

Stop looking like morons, people. Now if Crystal Bowersox would only take that stupid thing out of her lip.