Comments on: Digital Decluttering: Clean up those profiles!

By: Mary Beth Orrange

Mary Beth Orrange — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:00:27 +0000

Now … the first step is the most difficult for me; finding a picture I can live with for my professional image. Second step will hopefully be easier; consistently adding it to each profile.

By: Maria H. Andersen

Maria H. Andersen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:16:16 +0000

Not so sure about that … I don’t think you have much choice about WHICH sites it “offs you” from.

By: KS

KS — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:54:24 +0000

Wish I would have seen this a month ago.

http://lifehacker.com/5439905/web-20-suicide-machine-offs-your-online-identity

By: KS

KS — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:24:32 +0000

I did this recently and was astounded at the majority of the sites that offer NO way to delete your account. Over 80% of the sites, services, betas, and accounts I signed up for, I had to email to get my account deleted. I had to get pushy at times too.

I ended up deleting/cancelling over 30 accounts, most of which I didn’t remember ever signing up for. Luckily, I’m as big of an email pack rat as I am a sign-up happy early adopter. I always tagged my registration or ‘password changed’ emails and went back and went through those. Worked surprisingly well. However, out of the 30+ accounts I asked to be deleted, I still haven’t heard back from 10 of them. That’s after multiple emails sent to them. :/