There is one task that I find more daunting than the others when it comes to cleaning up my on-line life: accounts. It can be very difficult to find information and facebook is one such example so why not collect links and comments on what we find? I'll go first.
Kindly borrowed from the discussion on Facebook earlier in the forum (thank you, thank you, thank you! Had some gaming accounts to Farmville but some of them got deleted by FB and I didn't want to play daily anymore so out the rest go too):
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
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Google Accounts
https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32046
https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount
https://www.google.com/accounts/DeleteAccount
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Yahoo
I have one at UK/Ireland but I'm sure it works about the same for the other local versions of Yahoo, as well. Please not that also Yahoo is complex in that it is not just the email account you might delete but a bunch of others.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/edit/changing_users/edit-23.html
Follow the link "Account deletion page" and act accordingly.
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Wordpress
Go to Tools, then Delete site. Choose "Permanently delete the blog name and all content".
This will delete the blog but your Wordpress account will never be deleted. Nobody else can use it though so that is a perk, I guess. (I still think it sucks that you have no power over these things unless you read the fine print and chose not to start up an account in the first place. I will use my magnifying glass a lot better and more often from now on.)
Before you click the confirm link in the email from Wordpress, check how you leave your Gravatar profile. I have chosen to hide my profiles before deleting finally so there is no permanent information out there.
Go to Users > My profile and click on "my profile" in the text. Then "Hide profile". Only after this I have clicked the delete link in the email. I can still log in after this but instead of the Dashboard stuff there is a text "Register a blog". Only if I clear all history, including cookies etc., can I log out however. Otherwise it leaves me logged in even after having quit firefox and restarted it. A bit odd I must say.
