With all the stories lately of Facebook keeping your information forever, and then backing down on that stance, it’s difficult for many people to continue using their services.  While you can deactivate the account, the information is still accessible to Facebook itself, so, here is a way to permanently delete your account, copy and pasted from Facebook.

Go to this page

Click “Submit”.

Your account will be permanently deleted within a few days.

This method is official and should be complete, i.e. no need to delete individual photos, comments, messages or items from your profile or anywhere else on Facebook!