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I see so many people recommending deleting your Facebook account. As far as I am aware, that only removes your ability to control the information they collect. They will create a shadow profile of you anyway.
If you've already accepted their terms of service and have an account: Best thing to do is to lock down the privacy controls, audit the "off-facebook-activity" trackers once in a while and avoid those websites in the future, and never use the account. Give them no wiggle room.
Whatever data you gave them was theirs to begin with. You can't change that even if you delete it. The best you can do is remove the app form all devices and not interact so that you give them no more.
The major thing it does is stop you logging into Facebook. This is by far the best thing you can do to make yourself happier.