CLOSE MY ACCCOUNT

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  howard5611111 · Member · Mar 24, 2017 at 12:08 am

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  I NEED TO CLOSE MY ACCOUNT AND SORT MY AFFAIRS OUT DUE TO PERSONAL REASONS HOW DO I THIS PLEASE THANK YOU.

  HOWARD5611

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  reallycoldmilk · Member · Mar 24, 2017 at 12:13 am

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  Hi. Accounts / Usernames cannot be deleted. If you want to close / deactivate your account, the best advice would be to follow the instructions here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-account-1785?replies=2#post-2902656

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  howard5611111 · Member · Mar 24, 2017 at 12:23 am

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  THANK YOU REALLY COLDMILK :-)

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  scotteod · Member · Mar 24, 2017 at 2:24 am

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  This sounds illegal.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 24, 2017 at 2:35 am

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  Hi there!

  You entered into a binding legal contract when you agreed to the Terms of Service, including all policies such as https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/ in order to register an account here. All your required to provide was a valid email address.

  Here’s how to deactivate your account:

  Although username accounts are not deleted, so you cannot be impersonated and have your reputation affected by anyone registering the same username in the future, there are steps you can take that amount to removing all personal information and result in leaving only a throwaway email address behind. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  1. You can go to My Account->Edit Profile at https://wordpress.com/me/account and remove all data except the account name and an email address. Create a throwaway email address and change the account email to that throwaway address. This only leaves the username behind.

  2. To unsubscribe from email sent to you from WordPress.com, go here and click on “Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com”:
  <a href=”https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/
  https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/
  “>https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/

  3. To ensure the account is locked up tightly, visit this site, generate a password of 15-20 characters, and change the account password to it:
  http://www.thebitmill.com/tools/password.html

  4. To hide your Gravatar profile, login and on the bottom right hand corner of your Gravatar profile page you will find a “hide” button visible only to you that you can click. http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1