Recently I’ve been giving some thought to the myriad of social media services that I have accounts for and therefore personal details on, in the majority of cases I rarely even use these services. This week I have finally decided to delete a few of these accounts and as a result I am no longer on:
- ICQ – I started using this when I was playing Ultima Online in the mid nineties.
- facebook – I created my account following a BCS YPG Congress, yet I have rarely logged in since.
- Yahoo! Messenger – this account was created to chat to one friend who didn’t use MSN messenger!
In the case of both ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger you cannot actually delete your account, all you can do is remove your details. Actually that’s not technically correct for Yahoo! Messenger as you can delete your entire Yahoo! account, but as I’m a member of a few Yahoo! Groups this wasn’t really an option for me.
I still have accounts for the following social media services:
- Windows Live Messenger/ Hotmail
- Google Talk/ Google Mail
- and not forgetting this WordPress blog!
Out of these the fate of my LinkedIn account is currently hanging in the balance, and while I’d like to drop down to a single IM and webmail service, I have friends who use one or the other exclusively!
21 Dec 09 – update, I’d forgotten about my accounts on:
- Flickr
- YouTube
- Upcoming
- Technorati
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