Deactivating your Facebook account typically makes your profile and timeline temporarily invisible to other users on the platform, including your friends. However, there are a few scenarios in which you might still be visible to your friends even after deactivating your account:
Messenger: If you've used Facebook Messenger, your profile picture and name may still be visible to your friends within the Messenger app, even if you've deactivated your main Facebook account. This is because Messenger and Facebook are linked but separate services, and deactivating one does not necessarily deactivate the other.
Mutual Groups or Pages: If you and your friends are members of the same Facebook groups or have liked the same pages, your name and profile picture may still be visible in those group memberships or page likes, even though your personal profile is deactivated.
Tagged Content: If your friends have tagged you in posts, photos, or comments, some of that content may still be visible on their profiles, even if your account is deactivated. However, your name will not be clickable, and your profile will not be accessible if someone clicks on it.
Cached Content: It's possible that some information about your profile may still be temporarily cached on Facebook's servers or in search engines, which could lead to your profile appearing in certain search results for a brief period.
In general, deactivating your Facebook account should make you largely invisible to your friends and other users on the platform. However, some residual visibility might occur due to the reasons mentioned above. If you want to ensure complete invisibility, consider asking your friends to remove any tags or mentions of you, and leave any groups or pages you were a member of before deactivating your account. Additionally, you can clear your browser cache and history to remove any cached data related to your Facebook profile.