How To Delete Yourself From The Internet

1. Deactivate or remove social network accounts

To disable social network accounts and stop sending any info to the provider, all you need to do is to find the deactivate button the account setting panel. You can optionally choose to remove or contemporarily close the account. It can be easily found under 'Security' as well as 'Privacy' section.

With some unpopular sites, you can search the “How to delete…” to get instruction on how to delete these types of accounts. Then it can make sure that your deleting process would work properly.

Bonus: If you can’t delete your account with real private information, then change it to fake one to prevent your data from an exposed leak.

2. Delete your personal information from data collection sites

A dozen of companies called data brokers are collecting your information. Actually, they record your data from everywhere you've been there online, including browser history, social media data, articles, or even email content. An easy way to delete them all is to register a paid service like Delete Me at Abine.com. The service will take off all of them for you. It’ll even check back periodically to make your recorded stuff has not been re-added again.

3. Directly delete your information from websites which you've filled in

This will work effectively in case you want to delete an old thread or an embarrassing post that you’ve written. You can do it yourself stage by stage or contact the website’s moderators at Contact or About Us.

4. Sending a "legal request" to offer websites to remove your data

If you have found any sensitive information on the Internet but that web’s owner seems to keep it anyway for unpredictable reasons, you should send a ‘legal request’ to Google and wait for the removal process. There's no guarantee that it’ll be removed but it’s actually the best solution in this case.