Remove a page or site from Google's search results - Webmaster Tools Help. Dying Digitally. How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites. Advertisement We all have an increasing number of sites and online services we’re members of, and sometimes it all gets a little overwhelming. At times, we just need to delete our memberships to some sites, either in an effort to simplify our lives or just because we’ve grown tired of a particular site or service. What we often don’t realize when signing up for all these accounts, though, is how difficult it can be to permanently delete our accounts when we’ve had enough. Some require complicated, multi-step processes that can stretch over the course of days (or weeks). Others take less time, but still require multiple steps by the user. Below we’ll take a look at the account deletion processes of popular websites and services, and how easy or difficult they make it. Facebook Difficulty (on a scale of 1-5, 5 being hardest): 5 Deleting a Facebook account is a bit more complicated than many other services.
Then you can use the form found here to request deletion. Twitter Difficulty: 2 MySpace. How to delete your digital life | Technology. Wiping away your digital life means getting rid of the traces you've left – the mistakes you made, the embarrassing photos, the unwise comments, the flawed social media profiles where you've left too much visible. But how easy is that? The following steps provide a start to reducing your digital footprint and taking back control of your online life. 1) If you have a Facebook account, change every setting in the Privacy tabs to "private" or "not shared" or "off" (there's a special "privacy settings" shortcut in the blue bar near the top). 2) Find out what photos you're tagged in on Facebook. These should appear in the Photos tab on the left hand side. 3) If you have a Google Blogger account, delete your profile there. 4) If you've got a Tumblr or Wordpress blog, delete that too.
Now start using a search engine, and begin searching on your name (put the first name and surname together in quotes; this works in pretty much all search engines to identify that as a phrase you're after). Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager. Posted by Andreas Tuerk, Product Manager Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. So today, we’re launching a new feature that makes it easy to tell Google what you want done with your digital assets when you die or can no longer use your account. The feature is called Inactive Account Manager — not a great name, we know — and you’ll find it on your Google Account settings page. You can tell us what to do with your Gmail messages and data from several other Google services if your account becomes inactive for any reason.
For example, you can choose to have your data deleted — after three, six, nine or 12 months of inactivity. We hope that this new feature will enable you to plan your digital afterlife — in a way that protects your privacy and security — and make life easier for your loved ones after you’re gone. Facebook API Euthanasia Continues: Keeping Face.com to Itself.
What Happens Online When You Die? - Infographic - Life Insurance Finder. Like this infographic? <a href=" target="_new"><img src=" title="Guide to Preparing for Digital Death" width="550" /></a><br />Produced by <a href=" Insurance Finder</a> What would your digital legacy be like if you died tomorrow? The fact is, none of us really knows what happens to our spiritual self when we die, but whether you believe you'll be looking down on your loved ones from a better place, or there really is nothing for you after your last status update, your digital self is already out there, in the cloud, more far reaching and powerful than you could have ever imagined. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever!
Should Virtual Suicide Be Outlawed? | Future Crimes. By Marc Goodman Recently a company in the Netherlands known as “Moddr.Net” released a software application allowing users to commit “virtual suicide.” Their free product, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” allows users to permanently and irrevocably delete their accounts from social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. The virtual suicide machine launches a series of scripts which Moddr.Net has created which log into various social networking sites and deletes all network contacts. In addition, the script blocks further access to the account by changing the prior password and by not providing the new login credentials to the individual committing virtual suicide.
Many have found the site and its associated videos humorous. Others, including lawyers for Facebook are clearly NOT amused. The owners of the virtual suicide machine, despite the cute name and logo, actually do have a serious point which is this: web 2.0 can be all consuming. The Rise of the Virtual Self. Digital Death and Afterlife Online Services List | The Digital Beyond.
The Digital Beyond maintains this list of online services that are designed to help you plan for your digital death and afterlife or memorialize loved ones. These services come in all flavors including digital estate services, posthumous email services and online memorials. If your service is not listed here, don’t feel left out. Let us know and we’ll add it to the list. 1000Memories 1000memories.com Founded: July, 2010 1000memories provides memorial websites that allows users to invite other friends of the deceased to submit photos and stories. Afternote www.afternote.com Founded: 2013 Afternote is a new free secure online platform aimed at helping people store everything that matters to them the most in life and in death. AfterSteps www.aftersteps.com Founded: 2010 AfterSteps is an all-in-one end-of-life planning service. Afterwords.cc afterwords.cc Founded: 2012 Afterwords.cc is a secure online tool for leaving posthumous messages. Bcelebrated www.bcelebrated.com Founded: July, 2009 Capsoole Deadman.
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