New York - After complaints from members of much difficulty in fully deleting their profiles from the social network, Facebook has modified its site to make it more clear to users how they can delete profiles, but stopped short of offering a one-step delete option, The New York Times reported.

Previously, Facebook had only offered to "deactivate" a user's account, stating that if a member ever wanted to restore their profile, it could be resurrected intact from a copy stored by the company.

The Times on Monday reported on how some users were unable to fully delete their accounts after weeks or months of trying; over 7,000 Facebook members have joined a recently-formed group on the site called "How to permanently delete your Facebook account."

"We are measuring the effects of the change we made yesterday, and if we think more needs to be done to improve the user experience for deleting an account, we'll test different implementations and measure them accordingly," Katie Geminder, director for user experience and design at Facebook, told The Times.

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