Apparently people in New Jersey have had enough of Facebook.

Tens of thousands of people are actively thinking of getting rid of the platform, according to recent research by Top10VPN, a U.K.-based company focused on cybersecurity.

The number of Google searches about how to delete Facebook doubled in the weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in March, the research shows.

The New York Times and the Guardian reported last month that profiles of millions of Facebook users were harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm hired by President Trump's 2016 campaign. The firm used the information it had gathered to strategically place political ads.

About 87 million Facebook users around the world had their details shared with Cambridge Analytica, forcing CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on Capitol Hill last week.

More than 80 percent of the people affected by the data breach live in the U.S., said Simon Migliano, head of research and CEO of Top10VPN.

As a response to the scandal, Facebook users across the world began searching for ways to delete their accounts.

His team pooled all the Google searches related to deleting Facebook in 255 locations across 17 countries. The total number of searches totaled 3.5 million. One-third of those searches were from within the U.S., Migliano said.

About 27,000 searches originated from New Jersey -- a 126 percent increase from the months prior to the Cambridge Analytica story breaking, according to the data.

Searches on how to delete Facebook may have doubled in New Jersey, but they spiked even higher in New York.

In New York, searches rose 134 percent to 36,550 in the weeks following the scandal.

Other U.S. cities that experienced spikes include San Francisco, Seattle, San Jose, Portland and Austin.

"I think these numbers are only going to get bigger," Migliano said. "Facebook has something to worry about."

New Jersey's attorney general's office is investigating how personal information came into the possession of Cambridge Analytica and if data from New Jersey was compromised.

"I am particularly troubled by reports that Facebook may have allowed Cambridge to harvest and monetize its users' private data, despite Facebook's promises to keep that information secure," Grewal said in a statement. "At this point we have many questions and few answers, and New Jersey's residents deserve to know what happened."

Facebook says that it can take up to 90 days to process your request and to delete your information from the site.

Click here. This will take you to the page where you can delete your account.

For more information visit the help document located in Facebook's Help Center.

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