This is a temporary decision that removes your name and content across Facebook, though Facebook Messenger won’t be affected unless you deactivate Messenger separately. If you’d rather just take a break from Facebook and put a pin in your account, you can deactivate your profile under the Your Facebook information section of your Facebook Settings. The setting isn’t available worldwide at the time of writing, but you can enable a lock when it’s available on your account from your profile page. This includes all of your posts, your profile picture, and Facebook Stories. If you're sick of friends pleading for extra lives in Facebook games, you can block all Facebook invites and requests by game or by person. RELATED: How to See What Data Facebook Has on You Lock or Deactivate Your Profileįacebook announced a profile lock feature that effectively limits everything to friends until you deactivate the setting. Facebook features hundreds of games, nearly all of them designed to waste your time and//or take your money. You can delete anything you want from this section, but keep in mind that you’re “training” the advertising algorithm by doing this. There’s also a humorous “interest categories” listing things that Facebook thinks you are interested in. You can make ads even less intrusive by disabling certain “categories used to reach you” including your employer, job title, education, and relationship status.

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