Closing Account

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  robinsonid · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 8:40 pm

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  I would like to close the account. I registered thinking I was able to blog from a mobile device but it appears to have created another website instead of the word press website I currently have

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

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 31, 2015 at 10:10 am

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  Hi there. Is your WordPress website you mention a self-hosted site? You should be able to blog on that site using the mobile app, but they’ll be better able to advise you on that over in the WordPress.org forums: http://wordpress.org/support/

  You cannot delete a 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. You can disable all email notifications from your account settings:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-notifications/

  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 post on how to do that: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/06/02/deleting-accounts-blogs-and-content/

  If you used your real name as your username you can change that to a random username that cannot be connected to you. The existing username will then cease to exist and won’t be available for anyone, including you, to ever use again: http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 31, 2015 at 10:12 am

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  To set the WordPress.com site you accidentally created to private, or to delete it completely, see here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  Note that if you delete it, you will never again be able to register that address: http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/