If you choose to delete your Facebook account, you can choose to store any posts, videos or cat photos you may have uploaded to the service over the years. You will still be able to use other social media platforms owned by Facebook, such as Instagram or WhatsApp, even if you have deleted your Facebook account, however. If you have used Facebook to set up accounts with other services such as Spotify or Pinterest, you may need to contact those apps in order to still use your account. Messages you have sent to friends from Messenger may still be visible to other people after you have deleted your account.

Access to Facebook Messenger will also be deleted, along with any conversations you have had with people on the service. While access to Facebook will disappear following the deletion of an account, more than just your posts will vanish. Your account, along with the information on the platform, will be permanently deleted 30 days after the account has been shut down. From there, you'll need to confirm the decision to delete your account a couple of times with your user information and password, before the changes are made. If you want to delete your account altogether, you can go into settings on Facebook, then click 'Your Facebook Information' and then go into 'Deactivation and Deletion'. For those who want to take the plunge and ditch their presence on Facebook, there are a couple of ways it can be done. While Facebook has been no stranger to calls for users to boycott the platform due to controversies over the years, for many, the tech giant's decision to block news in Australia has been seen as the last straw. Australian Community Media, the publisher of this masthead, has publicly urged Australians to ditch the social media platform following Facebook's decision to block news on the service. In protest of the federal government's new media bargaining code legislation, Facebook banned users in Australia from posting or sharing news content, with pages belonging to news outlets taken down. Hashtags such as #DeleteFacebook and #BoycottZuckerberg began trending on other social media sites following Thursday's developments. In the wake of Facebook getting rid of news from newsfeeds in Australia, calls have been growing louder for people to ditch their accounts on the social media platform.

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