account deletion

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  simoncamper · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 5:11 pm

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  i want to close the account and start over

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 16, 2015 at 5:28 pm

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  Hi there. You cannot delete your wordpress.com username account. This is for security reasons so others cannot claim your username and impersonate you. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  The only details you were required to provide when signing up for your account was an email address. WordPress.com will never send you spam to that email address and also won’t sell it to third parties, as clearly stated in their privacy policy.

  If you change that email to a throwaway address there will be no way your account could ever be linked to you. Any other details that you added yourself, you also have the power to delete yourself. See timethief’s instructions in this thread on how to do that: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-account-276?replies=2

  Alternatively, you can also merely change your username/empty your blog/start a different blog. See these links for instructions on each:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-new-site%C2%A0to-an-existing-account