Top 10 Ways To Disappear From The Internet: How To Clear Your Name From The Web
We can all be tracked via email, cell phones, and perhaps all of our social media accounts, from Facebook to Instagram. But what if you wanted to delete yourself from all of digital time and space? Perhaps you can.
The creators at WhoIsHostingThis website have come up with a nine step How-to-guide to deleting your digital presence.
According to the Metro, if you can delete your social media accounts, email addresses, search engine results, and telephone directory information, then it is possible to vanish almost completely from the web.
9 Steps to Disappearing from the internet:
Step 1: Close all of your primary social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, etc.
Step 2: Search for yourself online, and close any other pages that you have forgotten about.
Step 3: Falsify any information on undeletable accounts.
Step 4: Unsubscribe from email mailing lists.
Step 5: Delete your search engine results or ask the search engine to remove results referring to you.
Step 6: You might have to contact webmasters and ask them to remove any information about you, so that you can delete yourself.
Step 7: Consider data clearing houses. Ask data clearinghouses, companies that buy and sell your online data, to remove your records.
Step 8: Check in with your phone company, and request from them to remove your information from telephone books and online directories.
Step 9: Finally, delete all of your email accounts. This step should be done last, the Times recommends. Just in case you need your email to receive information regarding passwords, and usernames that you might have forgotten.
Good luck.