I haven't found a way to delete Facebook from the Verizon pre-load. I can hide the icon. Setup won't seem to allow that to application to delete.
It's being pushed to your device by your Carrier, anytime you do a device reset or resend your service books it will appear again. The best you can do is hide the icon, as long as the application is not installed, the icon is not doing anything...
you have to delete them from the DM if not they will pop up very time you take your battery out..trying deleting them from the application loader
You don't necessarily have to do it this way and it's definitely not the only method. You can delete it from the device without having to worry about them coming back after a battery pull.
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