How to disappear from the Internet

martinio6 (61)in #internet • 8 years ago

Today is full of information about us online. Whether profiles on social networks, data stored in the cloud, old messages in the forums that we can hardly remember or anything else anyone with an Internet connection can learn a lot of things for our lives .

For those who want to open a new page, we found this Action Plan, which will help to delete all information about you contained in the Internet.

Let's start with social networks

Most social networks allow you to delete your account. Remember the sites are registered and delete all profiles. When your account is disabled, your name, pictures and most of the materials that you shared with friends are deleted. If you change your mind, most social networks offer the opportunity to restore your account within a certain period of time.

Remember the story

Try to remember which sites you have registered in the past. Did you online diary as a teenager? Log in your old profile and delete it. If you have forgotten your password, each site has a way to restore (usually simply enter your email address). You can also look through your mail for all messages received for registration / confirmation of such sites. This makes it easier to track which sites are registered.

Time to be creative

In some websites you can delete your account. You will have to invent something if you want to disappear. Just change the name, city and other information with something completely false.

End of Spam

Now clean your inbox. Review all emails with advertisements or links to news sites and unsubscribe from them.

Depart from search engines

Enter your first and last name into a search engine, or the names that are used in online forums. If search engines provide information to you, you should remove that information. For example, if you find information in Google, and you want to delete it, read it .

Contact the webmasters

With some sites you will not be able to delete information about themselves alone. In this case you should contact the webmaster. Most often you can find their email address in the "Contact Us" page. Write to them with a request to delete your information from your site.

There is still someone who knows a lot about you

Some sites are favorite spies. They collect information about all your actions online. If you log in to a site with email and phone, these data will appear in at least Spokeo , PeopleFinders and Intelius . To delete your information from these sites must again write their department customer service.

The final step

All that remains is to delete the email. You must do this at the last possible moment because we still may need to continue communication with some of the sites.

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