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'Delete Your Account' Helps You End Your Facebook, Myspace Account

by Terrence O'Brien on February 3, 2010 at 10:20 AM

Online companies have slowly made account deletion exasperatingly difficult (if not impossible) to accomplish, and success may only follow hours of trial-and-error-induced hysterics. While GetHuman has been guiding frustrated consumers through the maze of support lines for sometime, it was only recently that we spotted a similar service that walked users around the hair-pulling experience of expunging profiles, or accounts, from clingy Web sites.

The plainly titled Delete Your Account does exactly what you think: shows you the steps required to remove your presence from various Web sites. Wherever possible, it offers a link to the page where the deletion process begins.

Most sites have started offering easier methods for canceling accounts, but there are still a few out there that make it a giant pain in the (insert body part of choice here), such as WordPress and iTunes. We're just glad we can finally figure out how to cancel our embarrassing Friendster and Live Journal accounts. [From: Delete Your Account, via: Unplggd]

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