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Delete your social media accounts.

Perhaps, once upon a time drunk, a photo was accidentally published on Facebook or another social network, and this forgotten photo or ridiculous post could have a bad effect on future employment prospects, because it is no secret to anyone that employers carefully review their employees' social media accounts.

And in later life, when your social status changes, this forgotten information may not come in handy at all.

Now you can delete almost all of your online accounts with the click of a button.

Of course, you can go through and manually remove yourself from the sites, add or remove all the necessary items in the settings. However, this can be a very time consuming task, given that it is practically customary to register on social networks.

The Swedish site Deseat.me, created by programmers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck, allows people to erase their online footprint with the click of a button.

How it works?
When a user logs into a social networking site with their Google account data, the Google OAuth protocol is used.

Visit Deseat.me and enter your Gmail address.
The site itself uses Google's OAuth protocol to access all available data before giving the customer the option to remove links for each of their accounts so they can get rid of all their online activity.

Deseat.me finds all the different sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Evernote that use the OAUTH GOOGLE protocol.

This is certainly not a panacea, as Deseat is only able to find accounts that are associated with a Gmail account, so any old accounts that were created using a different email address will not be cleared.

Most likely it is impossible right away completely delete your account on the Internet, any images or videos that are available can be seen through a Facebook friend, for a while the account will be available even after you have removed it from the site.

It can be a little discouraging that Deseat.me is given access to all of your online credentials before allowing them to be deleted.
Nonetheless, Deseat.me claims "data privacy and security are extremely important to them." And since Deseat.me uses the Google OAuth protocol, it simply won't have access to anyone's login information, the only thing it finds is the accounts you want to delete.

Key ideas of the unpublished book in Russian by Jaron Lanier from the MakeRight.ru service.

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In his book "Ten Reasons to Delete Your Accounts on Social Networks Right Now," Jaron Lanier writes about the hidden dangers of social networks, how their creators manipulate users and make them evil, stupid and limited.

Immediately after its release, the book became the # 1 bestseller on the Amazon website in the "Human-Computer Interaction" section. It was not published in Russian.

Foreword

Judging by the title, it might seem that the book was written by some kind of retrograde, an ardent enemy of modern digital life, unable to understand it due to limited horizons.

However, this is not at all the case. Jaron Lanier is the author of the term "virtual reality", one of its creators, a representative of the Silicon Valley cyber elite, scientist-inventor and futurist. It is difficult to suspect him of dilettantism of judgments. Why did social networks fail to please him?

The book begins with a parallel between dogs and cats. Dogs, once wild, have become man's friends. They could live free, but we have tamed them, and now they are our constant companions, reliable and loyal.

Cats are another matter. They came themselves because they wanted to, and stayed with us. They walk on their own, and not only walk. Cats have freedom and are not going to compromise on it.

We love dogs, but we would not want to turn into them, so that someone would control us. We love freedom like cats, and we also want to walk on our own.

But the powerful invisible algorithms that power social media have their own plans for our freedom. According to Lanier, the only way to get rid of their harmful influence is to close your social media accounts.

Lanier emphasizes that he finished his book at the end of 2017, and soon after that happened to Cambridge Analytica, which collected personal data from Facebook users and used it for their dark purposes, including political ones.

After the data breach scandal, Cambridge Analytica was closed, but even then many Facebook users sensed something was wrong and began to massively delete their accounts.

But there were others. Some argued that the government deliberately set up this story in order to limit the influence of Facebook, while others believed that the advantages of social networks outweighed their disadvantages. In general, according to Lanier, the story did not receive a proper objective assessment, and therefore the scandal did not affect the majority of users.

Lanier calls himself living proof that it is possible to lead public life, for example, in electronic or conventional media, without social media accounts. Everyone, if they wish, can do the same and not contribute to the destruction of society by their participation.

Idea # 1. There are very good reasons to remove your accounts from social networks.

1. social networks suppress free will;
2. they multiply the madness of our time;
3. they turn us into stupid angry types, "assholes," as Lanier puts it;
4. they create fake news and fake people;
5. everything we talk about becomes meaningless with their help;
6. they destroy the ability to empathize;
7. they make us unhappy;
8. they encroach on our economic well-being;
9. they make politics impossible;
10. they hate and destroy the human soul.

They were supposed to unite, promote love and understanding, but instead turned into manipulative machines that pose a danger to society.

Both Facebook and Twitter have been seen to misrepresent information, fake news, and manipulate for political and advertising purposes. The picture of the world they create distorts the human personality, feeding our worst traits.

And behind all this there is a lot of money from influential companies, which are only interested in their own benefit and for the sake of which algorithms have been created that change our personality for the worse.

This morbid addiction is embedded in the algorithm of networks and exploits our every weakness with old psychological tricks based on behaviorism and backed up by algorithms.

Lanier stresses that the original idea for social media was great. But gradually, step by step, it merged with big business in the field of marketing and advertising, and, as it was recently revealed, with political forces that use users' dependence on networks for their own nefarious purposes.

Lanier called the algorithms that subdue users, the BUMMER mechanism (this is an abbreviation for Behaviors of Users Modified, and Made into an Empire for Rent - user behavior changed and leased to the empire).

BUMMER is a collective image that refers primarily to the work of Facebook and Google, but not only to them. The author fears that our consciousness is losing ground more and more under the pressure of technology corporations, and we are gradually turning into appendages to smartphones and tablets.

Acting for selfish purposes on our consciousness, corporations do not take into account anything but their own benefit.

Idea # 2. Algorithms turn us into laboratory animals

When we use a smartphone (and most of us can no longer look at it), we supply the algorithms of social networks and popular search engines with constantly updated information about us.

Our social circle, the speed of transition from one page to another, actions before making a purchase, political preferences - all this can be seen at a glance.

Information about one person is compared with information about other people. Someone probably shares our tastes in terms of products, personalities, moods and beliefs. And this huge amount of data is successfully used by advertisers.

They wait for the right moment, and then influence our consciousness with precisely selected messages, inciting to action - to buy something or vote in a certain way, for example.

When we see advertisements on TV or hear on the radio, we can turn off the sound or connect to cable channels where they are not available. Advertising on social media is more insidious, it affects our behavior on a much larger scale and at the same time almost invisible. It is a constant subtle manipulation based on the principles of behaviorism and conditioned reflexes.

Facebook, Google and Twitter have been trying to fix their work lately, as if realizing that they are causing a problem - perhaps under pressure, or perhaps on personal initiative. They try to rebuild their algorithms and express regrets to their users. Users, on the other hand, seeing that they have begun to work on the problem, calm down and believe that now everything is in order. But is it okay?

At the heart of all addiction is dopamine, a neurotransmitter that induces feelings of pleasure. It was with the help of dopamine that the great physiologist Pavlov developed conditioned reflexes in dogs: behavioral changes in exchange for rewards.

If the behavior is undesirable, it is corrected with negative reinforcement, such as electric shock.

Immediately after that, you see an ad for socks or shoes. The algorithm keeps track of the decision time it will take to buy, and depending on this, it shows the video in a second or two. Sometimes an automated test is performed to calculate the ideal interval between video and sentence.

Besides, people are social beings. We react sharply when we are approved or disapproved, and we strive for socially desirable behavior.

Instinctively, we imitate most of the group members, even if we do not share their opinions and views outside of social networks. Thus, users develop another addiction - sensitivity to public approval and other people's opinions.

All this as a whole contributes to the degradation of humanity, says Lanier. Information wars lure people over to their side without caring about the truth, influence elections and breed hatred.

Thus, advertising has gradually evolved from an engine of commerce into a tool for manipulation, modification of human behavior and the enhancement of negative properties. And this is just the beginning, the author believes. Invisible manipulators and imperfect algorithms are gradually turning us into laboratory animals.

Idea # 3. The impact of BUMMER is as slow as climate change, but no less dangerous.

Lanier constantly emphasizes that he is in no way an opponent of the digital age. The digital civilization itself is neither good nor bad, it is neutral. But those aspects of it that are based on a business model, like that of BUMMER, should be a cause for concern.

Once upon a time, people found out that paints with a high lead content were dangerous. However, no one after that made a statement that from now on it is impossible to paint houses. Everyone just waited for a harmless analogue to be created, and as soon as it appeared, they began to use it. Therefore, you need to wait until social networks are less dangerous, and then return to them. So far, according to Lanier, this has not happened.

BUMMER's impact is statistical - that is, slow, gradual, like climate change, which cannot be blamed for a particular drought or storm.

It only increases the likelihood of natural disasters, but in the future can lead to a global catastrophe, such as rising sea levels, for example. A catastrophe of a different kind can also happen under the influence of BUMMER, if we do not pay close attention to it.

BUMMER consists of six parts:

1. to attract attention;
2. interference in someone else's life;
3. imposing on people what they don't like;
4. secret manipulation;
5. huge money turnover;
6. fake news and fake people.

In social networks, attention is attracted, as a rule, not by the best, but by the most impudent and scandalous people, whom the author dubbed "assholes." This is how they show their desire to dominate, in the absence of wealth and power. But in the virtual world, they feel like kings, shocking someone's feelings or offending people.

Interference in our lives occurs through secret surveillance of us through smartphones, tablets and other devices.

With the help of smartphones, you can take a spectacular selfie and immediately send it to a social network, so that anyone can find out our geolocation, movements, contacts, reaction to circumstances.

Algorithms keep track of your reading circle, distraction, frequency of access to this or that content - and they are constantly improving.

They impose on us unnecessary things through subtle manipulations, studying when we are most vulnerable to the impact of advertising - and thereby cram in what we do not need and do not like.

We are subtly manipulated, forcing us to spend more and more time on social networks, and the algorithms finish the rest, for example, increasing voter turnout or brand loyalty.

All these manipulations are done, of course, not out of love for art, but for the sake of money and power. It is impossible to resist BUMMER, you can only stand under its banners, so as not to be destroyed, as many digital and paper media have done.

To successfully manipulate, BUMMER creates fake news and even fake people, using them to produce the content necessary for manipulation.

All this taken together can eventually lead to a global catastrophe, the author believes.

Idea # 4: BUMMER Induces Addiction and Personality Change Like Drug Addicts

An addicted person, a drug addict, experiences constant nervous excitement. His personality changes over time, sometimes beyond recognition.

He neglects the opinions and feelings of others, becomes selfish, arrogant and arrogant. But underneath this arrogance lies a deep self-doubt. The addict is increasingly detached from reality, plunging into a world of illusions.

Gradually, such changes, to a greater or lesser extent, are taking place with BUMMER users. Resentment and arrogance make them aggressive, and this aggression spreads in waves on social networks.

Lanier cites as an example American President Donald Trump, whom he knows. He met him several times when Trump was still hosting a TV show. Lanier did not feel much sympathy for him, but nevertheless he could say with confidence that he was not like a drug addict.

He himself was a manipulator and a protagonist, in complete control of the situation, even on reality shows. That all changed when Trump started a Twitter account. He often loses control over himself, forgets who he is, about his presidential status, power and responsibility.

His addiction is stronger than all of this put together. Either he seeks to destroy someone with the help of another tweet, then, on the contrary, flatter someone in exchange for loyalty. If Twitter suddenly shut down, Trump would become a much more pleasant and reasonable person, the author believes.

Lanier notices that an inner troll lives in each of us. In social networks, he begins to strive for freedom, especially when interacting with his own kind.

Social networks are full of all sorts of groups, and as soon as we join one of them, we begin to behave like a group. This behavior can be observed among animals that fight for hierarchy in the pack.

We need to pounce on those who are below us, so as not to sink lower ourselves, and flatter those who are higher in rank. Lanier himself a long time ago, when comments under the publications had just begun to appear, noticed that he was eager to fight with complete strangers for the most trifling reasons.

They began to shower each other with insults, even if it was about a type of ice cream or a brand of piano. To avoid such encounters, it was necessary to pretend to be kind and carefully choose the words.

But then Lanier noticed that he was becoming someone else, trying to please everyone. This was the case when he was blogging at the Huffington Post: he could not stop reading the comments under his posts, he could not ignore them, he began to respond - and the authors of the comments just wanted to attract attention, which they could no longer do without.

And he himself began to write either syrupy-pleasant things, or deliberately provocative things to annoy readers. Noticing that he himself is becoming addicted and changing as a person, he quit.

Idea number 5. BUMMER promotes alienation of people who no longer understand each other

Why it happens? Algorithms are adjusted for each user individually. So, for example, Trump's supporters will see one thing, while his opponents will see something completely different.

Algorithms determine what you should see, but this means that you can no longer see the addictions of the other person, which means that over time you stop understanding him. This is the flip side of personalized search.

Each of us has a kind of social perception program. We observe each other's reactions and unconsciously imitate them. If people around you are worried about something, you too will feel uneasy - there must be a reason why they are worried.

If in the company of people, even strangers, one person starts to peer into the sky, everyone else will take an example from him. If a person finds himself in another country without knowing the language, he especially carefully observes those around him in order to understand the situation at least in this way.

Social perception is inherent in us by evolution and often helps to avoid danger. But personalized search shows everyone his own, and therefore we gradually cease to understand each other.

As an example of such a false perception, moreover, fueled by fake news, Lanier cites "pizza gate" - shooting in a pizzeria on the basis of conspiracy nonsense common in individual Facebook groups.

They claimed that some Clinton supporters in Washington run a pedophile den at Comet Ping Pong. This led the outraged North Carolina resident Edgar Welch to drive 500 km in his own car, entered the pizzeria with a rifle, and demanded the release of the unfortunate children.

Since no one could satisfy his request, he opened fire - fortunately, no one was hurt, and the shooter was detained.

When people communicate with each other without looking at their smartphones, they have a common perception of the world around them. This is why people go to sports clubs, prayer meetings, theaters.

But as soon as everyone has their eyes on their smartphone, this community will disappear. Instead of interacting with their own kind, a person begins to interact with the algorithm, as a result, we lose the ability to understand how other people feel.

Lanier emphasizes that he is not a supporter of people seeing the same thing and thinking the same thing - this is one of the signs of a dictatorial regime. But we must be able to look at what others see. Otherwise, our sense of empathy will gradually fade away.

BUMMER not only distorts the worldview, it deprives us of the opportunity to learn about the worldview of other people. We are not allowed into closed groups, the people in these groups are as opaque to us as the algorithms that govern everything, Lanier writes. But the Internet was originally designed to create a transparent society.

Idea # 6: Social Media Content Can Do Real Harm

Lanier is sure that BUMMER algorithms are tuned in such a way that they are capable of evoking any negative emotions in a person. According to requests or posts, they can easily guess the mood, toss up the relevant content to increase sadness or depression.

Of course, people in one way or another should experience both sadness and anxiety, but it is bad if someone uses this for their own selfish purposes, manipulating us.

Business Model BUMMER has tuned its algorithmic system to automatically adapt to users. It is very easy to play on negative emotions, a person in longing or sadness is more vulnerable and defenseless, which means that this must be used. And the algorithm will find a way to amplify those emotions. He will fill up with depressing posts and links, but between them occasionally please with something - for his own purposes.

It was insecurity, fear of rejection. He decided that this was some kind of individual reaction, and the networks themselves had nothing to do with it. Perhaps the communication technology itself is unusual, that's the point.

But over time and the development of networks, this feeling has only strengthened. The author is worried that the algorithm calculates what a person is: the number of friends, tastes, preferences, money opportunities, and the like.

BUMMER turns all this into a product that it sells to an advertiser. Your feelings and aspirations become an abstraction, a model on which it is convenient to practice manipulation techniques.

When someone reads horoscopes in the newspapers, it can be funny. One believes in their predictions, the other chuckles. In any case, this is the relationship between a person and an inanimate object - a newspaper that cannot influence him in any way. But an online service is a different matter entirely. It summarizes your passions to use later - for political or advertising purposes.

Someone has collected more likes than you, and now you are gripped by anxiety and envy. Perhaps your hierarchy has dropped, an ancient instinct tells you, you need to do something about it.

You have already forgotten that all these contests are not worth a damn, as are the ratings, but you are already taking measures to rise higher - this is stronger than you, because it is inherent in nature. And this is shamelessly used by the owners of BUMMER.

Taking advantage of the fact that they are free, social networks can do whatever they want, says Lanier - as you know, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. But he would have preferred that Facebook, Google, or Twitter accounts were paid by users, so that the users themselves could order content.

Idea # 7. BUMMER is the perfect machine for political machinations

As an example, he cites the massacre of the Rohingya Muslim people in Myanmar. Immediately before the massacre, many fake posts appeared on Facebook about the Rohingya atrocities, ritual murders of children and the like that provoked the bloodshed.

The same has been observed in multi-faith India, and in South Sudan, when fake news was deliberately aimed at creating a political crisis in the country.

In the early days of social networking, educated young people, like the creators of networks, were typical users. They were idealists of liberal or conservative views, but in general, each of them strove to make the world a better place.

But with the growing popularity of networks, screamers, scammers and bots have overwhelmed them, making networks an ideal platform for all kinds of shenanigans, especially political ones.

When the Arab Spring hit the Middle East, most Silicon Valley residents were thrilled - after all, it was Twitter and Facebook that allowed the people in Cairo to come together in Tahrir Square and topple the annoying government.

Ordinary citizens told NATO troops where it was better to strike from the air. This revolution did not have a unifying figure, it organized itself, as it were, with the help of social networks.

However, such a revolution without a preliminary program, according to Lanier, does not solve any problems. Indeed, the overthrow of the government must be followed by some kind of reorganization, the adoption of measures to create a new order.

Are students and schoolchildren capable of this, just children gathered in the square? Will they get jobs as a result of the revolution they made? As a result, for the youth, everything remained the same, and power passed from fanatics to the military, and perhaps this is not the end.

In the same way that revolutions are carried out, presidents can be elected using social media (Lanier alludes to Trump).

And Trump is not the worst option, because in his place, using the BUMMER platform, anyone who attracts the maximum attention of social networks could be.

On the one hand, the enormous possibilities of networks, on the other, the blindness of users who are guided by their network sympathies, not knowing what they are doing.

Facebook and other networks consume human attention and manipulate public opinion, and therefore they will increasingly be used for politically unscrupulous purposes more and more subtly, the author believes.

Idea # 8. BUMMER is a new religion that changes your values ​​and principles

The belief of users in social networks is akin to religion - it does not require any proof. After all, some people believe that the Earth is flat. We take on faith a lot of nonsense published on the networks - all kinds of conspiracy theories, ridiculous scientific hypotheses, gossip and lies.

We trust memes and use clip thinking without going deep into the essence of the problem. But once the meme was described by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as a unit of culture that has absorbed images, ideas and habits, which survives or dies off, undergoing natural selection.

Today's Internet memes are information transmitted by users over the network in the form of viral pictures or videos. We believe in one meme until it is replaced by another, more impressive one.

It's just a genre of internet appraisal. A meme reinforces verbal information with an image, but this image is illusory. Its strength lies not in truth, but in showiness.

As soon as something more spectacular appears, it will immediately disappear. Gradually, relying on pictures and images, we become more and more ignorant. We are not interested in the search for truth, in this matter we rely on the algorithms of social networks. But they are not in tune with the truth.

Religions address questions of purpose and meaning in life. Google and Facebook are raising these questions too. Google has a purpose in life - organizing the world's information, optimizing everything.

The leaders of this company believe that sooner or later they will prevail over matter, improving the human body to the level of a cyborg and thereby achieving digital immortality. Facebook has made it its mission to empower everyone with a sense of purpose and community. Lanier considers this a pretense of religiosity.

If a Facebook user dies, his page turns into a place of worship, where everyone can leave a picture with a burning candle, express condolences and, in one way or another, honor the memory of the deceased.

If he was a celebrity, then that page becomes cult. This also bears a resemblance to religious practices. Google is promoting the idea that each user's consciousness can be placed in the cloud, thus ensuring a digital life after death. He positions himself as the master of eternal life.

Thus, without noticing it, BUMMER users become adherents of new cults. BUMMER engineers understand this. They believe that they do not work for people, but for the wonderful artificial intelligence of the future, which in a few centuries will rule the world.

People in this case are secondary. They are depreciated and reduced to appendages to machines. But this is just manipulation, the author believes, degrading the dignity and human rights. After all, if there were no people, there would be no artificial intelligence, which they created.

Final comments

The book is complex, interesting, and at times frighteningly convincing. The author argues that we underestimate the impact of BUMMER on our beliefs and our consciousness, giving way step by step to the work of algorithms.

Built for communication, social media suddenly turned out to be a tool of manipulation and alienation. Lanier does not know what can be done about this, other than deleting his accounts from all social networks - in order, he says, to remain human.

The Internet itself is great, there are many ways to communicate with friends without social networks - by writing emails, for example. If you want news, read them directly, not through Facebook filters.

Do not read the comments below them, and if you do, resist the temptation to engage in controversy. Create your own website or chat in a local, community-created one where you are just a step away from face-to-face communication.

Watch the video of your choice, not the one offered by Facebook. Use the Internet on your own terms and according to your own rules - be a cat, not Pavlov's dog. And you will notice how your mood and your life will change.

Here we asked the question - why do we need an account on "My World" if we don't use it, why "My World" and "Yarushka", if for the first case there is LinkedIn, which is actively developing, and the second is not for anything at all. Or maybe it's time to retire from VKontakte and prefer Facebook to it, although we sincerely love both grids. About all of them and a little more in our post, designed to make your digital world a little clearer and more modern.

My Circle

This professional network does not develop and can only please you with scattering of spam and “tempting” offers from network businessmen and leaders of the MLM movement. Deleting is highly recommended.

How to retire: Go to your account and in the upper right corner select Settings and then deleting the account. A couple of clicks and you're done. There is no screenshot, since it all started with this network, and only then they began to study the rest.

Yarushechka

How to retire: Login to beta.ya.ru and click on the top right Customization... There click on other and at the very bottom Delete Diary.

The only problem is that Yandex does not delete your diary, but hides it. Download his entries, like Facebook does, for example, I didn't find how.

If you want to delete your Yandex account altogether, then you need to go to Passport in any service through the profile settings and click the red link below in it Delete account... Be careful - mail and Yandex.Money will crash too.

Mail.ru

The most "favorite" company of Eldar Murtazin does not get into my model of using the Internet at all, even Futubra was not useful. And the account has been hanging for a long time. It must be removed.

How to retire: Here we will help you, since we have combed the help section - only it gives an answer to the question "How can I leave?" Mail will not let you go as easily as Yandex. There is a special link http://win.mail.ru/cgi-bin/delete, by clicking on which you will be taken to the self-elimination page:

Enter a reason and your password and you are almost removed from the mail. They will write you the following, it's just a gem! “Access to the mailbox is blocked, its contents have been deleted from our server, but you can still restore this mailbox. "In the end, I don't understand whether they deleted me or not?" The rest of the services will disappear from the face of the earth in 5 hours. So they say.

classmates

Here, with the removal of general darkness. Break the help section, you won't find this information. For self-removal, you need to go to the Regulations section, which is located at the bottom of the page on the right. Scroll to the bottom on this page and click on Refuse services... Then - the reason and the password, and that's it - your classmates will be shocked.

In contact with

How to retire: Go to settings at

A Google Account gives you access to all Google services, including Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Drive, and more. But what if you don't want to use Google services anymore? How to permanently delete your Google account? Yes, it is possible to permanently and completely delete your Google account.

Before proceeding with deleting your Google account, please note that all data stored there will also be deleted. I don’t know your reason for ending Google, maybe it’s just a second account that has not been used for a long time or another reason. In any case, deleting an unnecessary Google account is not at all difficult, below you will find step-by-step instructions.

Deleting a Google Account - What You Need to Know Before You Begin

After deleting your Google account, you will lose access to a lot of data, including:

• All Google services like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc. As well as any data associated with these services, such as emails, photos, notes, and more.
• Any subscriptions or content purchased from YouTube or Google Play, Movies, Books or Music.
• Information stored in Chrome, access to any free or paid Chrome apps and extensions.
• If you do, you will also lose access to the contacts stored in this account, as well as the data that was backed up using Android Backup.
• Finally, you will permanently lose your username. After you delete your account, you will not be able to register using the same username.

What to do before deleting

If you've been using your Google account for a long time, you will likely have important data that needs to be saved, such as notes, photos, emails, and more. If there are not many of them, you can download them individually, but Google has an easy way to back up all of your account data.

1. Open your Google account settings by going to accounts.google.com.
2. In the block “ Confidentiality" Press " Content management”.
3. Here you need to click on “ Create Archive”. The only thing left is to choose which data of Google services you want to save.
4. Click “ Further”And choose the format in which the data will be packed, the maximum archive size and the method of receiving.
5. The archiving time will depend on the amount of information data being archived. After finishing, you can download the archive (s) in one of the ways that you chose in the step above.

Also, remember that your Google mailbox can be used as a communication method on websites, portals and even banks, so be sure to replace your communication mailbox with a new one before deleting your account.

Deleting your Google Account is easy

1. Go to your Google account settings and in the “Account settings” section select “Disable services and delete your account”. Then click “ Delete account and data”.
2. Here you will see a recommendation to download important data and all content that will be deleted at the end of the operation.
3. At the bottom of the page, you must put two checkmarks to confirm the deletion of the account, after which you can click on the "Delete account" button.

Removing only certain services

Instead of deleting your entire Google Account, you also have the option to delete certain services.

1. Go to your Google account settings and in the “ account settings”Select“ Disable services and delete account ”. Then click “Remove Services”.
2. Here you will see a list of services available for deletion, as well as the ability to download data from them.
3. If you want to remove the Gmail service, you will have to add another mailbox that will be linked to other Google services you still use.

How to recover a recently deleted account

If after deleting your Google account, you regretted it. Do not worry, you have a little time during which it can be restored.

1. Go to the Google Account recovery page.
2. Select “ I'm having other problems signing in”.
3. Then follow the instructions on the page to see if it is possible to recover your account. Please be aware that this may not be possible. In addition, if you deleted Gmail and added another inbox to access Google services, you will not be able to recover the name of your Gmail inbox.

Conclusion

I hope you now know exactly how to delete your Google account. If you have any questions, ask them in the comments, and my readers and I will try to help you.

Not every user is able to use the Internet correctly. Moreover, a huge number of people around the world very often get into trouble organized by scammers or hackers. Hence, there is a distrust of the Internet and a desire to remove all your accounts from it. For such people, the Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck created the Deseat.me service. He clearly answers the question: "How to delete an account on any site on the Internet?"

Deseat.me deletes data in a few clicks

To start removing yourself from the Internet, you need to log in to the service website using your Google account. Next, the service finds all profiles on social networks, other services and applications, on various sites that are associated with your email address and offers to choose which profile or account to add to the queue for deletion and which one to leave for further use. After making the sorting and making the final decision on deletion, the service will redirect the user to the account deletion page of the selected site. All that remains is to log in to it and permanently delete your account.

Depending on how deeply the roots are embedded in the Internet, it can take about an hour to clear it of its own presence. The service is suitable not only for people frustrated on the Internet. It is also a useful tool for deleting accounts in those wilds of the Internet that a person is already visiting. However, the work of the service is tied only to Google accounts. If you register anywhere using Mail.ru, Yandex.ru and other mail services, then Deseat.me will be useless for you. You can use the Deseat.me service for free at this