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  fakeaccountdeleteme · Member · Aug 21, 2016 at 7:16 pm

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  Hello, I never could figure out how to make a site and I would like to delete my account

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  mariahpierson · Member · Aug 22, 2016 at 4:51 pm

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  Hi there,

  If you haven’t yet, take a look here before you decide to remove your information:

  Homepage

  There is a lot of useful information that will help you become more comfortable with WordPress.com.

  The account itself cannot be deleted. It is set up that way to prevent someone else from gaining access to your site and pretending to be you.

  If you want to get rid of your account details, follow this link and remove all personal information from your account.

  https://wordpress.com/me/account

  Change your email address to a throwaway address and change the password to something random that you won’t remember to prevent you from gaining access to it in the future. Or, you can just block all emails and keep the account dormant in case you may want to use it again in the future.

  Hope that helps.

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  fakeaccountdeleteme · Member · Aug 24, 2016 at 4:15 pm

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  Hello, thank you for your reply. I guess I’ll just hold onto the account for awhile but it might be over a year before I get a chance to look at it again. I just wish I could make a basic website about me for my work (I am self employed)

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  mariahpierson · Member · Aug 25, 2016 at 1:14 am

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  You’re very welcome.

  I would definitely recommend hanging on.

  I think you should look this over:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/making-a-business-website/

  You shouldn’t have much difficulty making a simple website following the steps in the link above. You can mess around with things until you become more comfortable. You can even set your site as private while tinkering around and no one will see it. ;)

  Best of luck in your self employment adventure!