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Dammit. It’s happened again. In fact, it’s happened ever since you created your Facebook Fan Page – and you’re mighty tired of it, aren’t you? Tired of wasting your precious time carefully crafting status updates that don’t get read. Tired of eagerly anticipating all the likes and comments your latest post is going to get only to be met with a whole lotta nothing.

And the funny cat memes you steal from Google Images to go with your updates? No one is liking those either – and everyone likes cat memes.

So what the hell is going on?

You've probably thought about deleting your Facebook account before, but for one reason or another you've been unable to commit. Maybe you're applying for a job and don't want your future employer to see pics of you at college frat parties. Or maybe you just can't stand one more depressing status update.

If you're serious this time about deleting your Facebook account, escaping the social networking giant can be a lot more complicated than you would think. There are necessary steps you should take before pressing that delete account button.

Remember, deleting your account is very different from deactivating your account. You can deactivate your account at any point, and when you want to return everything is as you left it. While your account is deactivated, people on Facebook will not be able to search for you, but some information like messages you've sent may still be visible to others.

If you permanently delete your account, you will not be able to regain access to your account again, ever. Most personally identifiable information is removed from the Facebook database, but some may remain such as your name if you sent a message to someone else.

If you're planning to delete your Facebook account permanently, read on to learn about what steps you should take first.

You may be struck by the sheer scale of connectivity that leading influencers create for themselves. Chris Brogan for example has an astonishing 122,000 identifiable followers on Twitter (up from 115,000 last week) and strong followings on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google + where he has almost 67,000 followers. 60,000 people subscribe to Mari Smith’s public updates on Facebook, along with approximately 77,000 identifiable people who follow her on Twitter. In this article, these aforementioned power influencers explain what they do to build their massive social media networks.