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How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by bishopjoe02(m): 12:05pm On Nov 20, 2013
Here's how you can become a ghost on the Internet, by tracking down and eliminating your digital past.

The Big Four

Before you go hunting down your old MySpace and Yahoo Fantasy Sports accounts, you should probably go ahead and nix your existence from the four largest social media sites on the planet—Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn—seeing as how they have the greatest reach and the most information on you. Luckily, each service makes the self-destruct process fairly straightforward.



Facebook

Facebook makes it very obvious how to deactivate your account; it's under Account Settings > Security > Deactivate your account. Don't be fooled! Deactivation isn't deletion, and when you chose this option, Facebook holds on to all your bits and pieces juuuuussssssst in case you change your mind.
To truly nuke your account, you need to head to the Delete My Account page and click the big blue button. That's it, you're officially off Facebook. The process might take up to a fortnight to complete since the system has to scan the entirety of itself making sure all data related to you—every tagged picture, like, and mention—but when it's gone, it's all gone. The process is irreversible.
Don't worry, though; if you still want that treasure trove of pictures and updates living on your hard drive, you can download the whole shebang by going to Account Settings > General > Download a copy of your Facebook Data > Start My Archive.



Twitter

Unlike on Facebook, on Twitter deactivate means delete. And it's easy! Go to Account Settings > Deactivate my account > Okay, fine, deactivate account. Then just enter your password and you're good to go.
Well, almost, anyway. Twitter also holds onto your info in case you have quitter's remorse, so it'll still stick around on the company's servers for 30 days. After that, though, you're all clear for a RTless life.



LinkedIn

Another easy one. Head to the upper right hand corner of the page, and select Privacy & Settings from the drop-down menu. From there, head to Account > Close Your Account. Answer a quick question about why you're leaving (as if you need a reason!), verify your account one more time, and then revel in the fact that you'll never get LinkedIn spam again.
It'll take a while for all professional network traces of you to leave Google and other search engines, but you'll be purged before long.



Google+

There's a decent chance you're a Google+ member without even realizing it—which makes leaving all the more compelling. It's also the most convoluted process of the four.
The important thing here is to delete your Google+ information and account without nuking your Google account (assuming you're a Gmail and Gcal user).
To get rid of just your public information, first sign into Google+ if you somehow aren't already. Click your name and/or email address in the upper right hand corner, and go toAccount Management > Delete profile and remove related Google+ features > Delete Google+ content. That'll take care of profile, your Circles, your +1s, etc.
To get rid of your entire Google+ account, meanwhile, repeat the above process, but selectDelete your entire Google profile. This sounds scary! It's not. You'll still be able to use Gmail, your Google Drive, and so on. It will, however, totally vanish your Google+ presence, and will make for some annoyances if you've coupled it with other Google accounts (most commonly YouTube).
If you really want to go all the way with this and delete the entirety of your Google account (mail, calendar, etc). To do that, go to to your Google Account homepage, clickClose account and delete all services and info associated with it, and kiss Gmail and every other Google-thing you love goodbye.



Cleaning Up the Scraps

Once you've taken care of the four elephants in the room, it's time to go after your smaller and older accounts. But unless you've been keeping meticulous notes on every single forum board and half-baked social site you've ever joined, you're going to need to spend a fair amount of time tracking them all down.
There are other third party software you can try, these software have not be verified by me, but you can try them out.
Account Killer(http://www.accountkiller.com/en/): maintain massive database of sites—more than 500 in all, from Activision to NuddistConnect.com to Zattoo—and can provide direct links to each one's deletion page.
Just Delete Me(http://justdelete.me/): offers a similar service, as well as a handy Chrome Extension that will light up whenever you're on a site that JDM recognizes and will link you directly to the site's account deletion page.
Knowem:(http://knowem.com/): meanwhile, finds sites that you may have forgotten about entirely by doing ausername search on more that 500 popular social sites.




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Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by dejt4u(m): 12:25pm On Nov 20, 2013
What about NL grin
Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by bishopjoe02(m): 12:40pm On Nov 20, 2013
dejt4u: What about NL grin
seun nor give us delete button oooooh..........
Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by dejt4u(m): 7:49pm On Nov 23, 2013
bishopjoe02:
seun nor give us delete button oooooh..........

nairaland
click on edit profile, then click on the "deactivate account" on the page opened
Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by bishopjoe02(m): 5:52am On Nov 24, 2013
dejt4u:

nairaland
click on edit profile, then click on the "deactivate account" on the page opened
Thanks buddy
Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by tpia5: 6:02am On Jun 28, 2014
dejt4u: What about NL grin

done.
Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by Nobody: 7:32am On Jun 28, 2014
tpia@:


done.
Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by dejt4u(m): 7:36am On Jun 28, 2014
tpia@:


done.
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Re: How To Erase Yourself From The Internet by itstpiia: 11:50pm On Jun 29, 2014
done

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