Since the Web 2.0 Social Suicide Machine hit the net, the social networking giants have hit back hard, serving the company with cease and desist letters, changing how their services work to stop the automated “suicides,” and generally making it even more difficult for you to get yourself off their servers.  After all, they want you, and they have to keep you by any means necessary.  Just like drug dealers or a pyramid scheme, they need to keep the flow of users positive to keep their cash flows in the black.  However, while they can make automatic removal more difficult, they can’t stop you from deleting your own account, and Delete Your Account can show you just how to do that.

Not only does Delete Your Account have ways to remove yourself from stalwarts like Facebook and MySpace, they’ve also got removal tips for all manner of sites:  Amazon, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, and even the original pain in the butt to get rid of, AOL.  If only it was so easy to get rid of AOL in 2002, when I closed out the last AOL account in the family.

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