[balladeer]

I have deleted all my photos on Facebook. Some of the "featured" photos I've deleted dozens of times (I've deleted twice just now leaving this comment midway) and Facebook still shows those featured photos in my profile when I log-in. Yes, it doesn't show anything to the public or my friends but I still can't get rid of those photos on Facebook. I tried to contact Fb couple of times but of course I didn't receive any response.

So no, I really don't think I should trust Fb with my account deletion. Besides for a long time that's just deactivation. A friend deactivated his account and after few months he received an email that in case he had changed his mind he should click this link and then they should go ahead with reactivation process. Well, that link was reactivation.

As for Google, here's an example - I get a brand new YouTube account when I visit YouTube and just play a video if I am logged in to my Gmail a/c in that browser session. The last time I tested it (before deciding to not ever logging into Fb, Tw, Google etc in the my main browser where I do my most of, and personal, browsing) it would create a YouTube account. No, not a single message, or pop up or anything. Just an automatic YouTube account. I must have deleted my YouTube account (or accounts) some 15 times by now.

I've never used Instagram, or Snapchat. Yes, Reddit's account deletion is actually straightforward (unless they too keep it hidden from user and don't delete it).