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  1254a · Member · Dec 8, 2016 at 10:04 pm

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  i think its absolutely ridiculous, unnecessary and bad that i cannot permanently delete my account. i dont know why this is but something fundamental like being able to remove my information from your damn website should be in there not some weird like ‘oh no i cant do this’. i dont mean to be an ass but like ive been deleting accounts all day and its so frustrating how no one takes this seriously and i have to look up all over the internet and the faqs and the settings and email people so i can delete my email. hopefully this message lets u know how upsetting this is. i dont want my info all over the net. fix this.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2016 at 3:51 am

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  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/
  Registering an account here required
  (1) your consent to the Terms of Service http://wordpress.com/tos/ and all policies made under it found in the support docs like this one for Deleting Accounts http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/,
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  (2) an email address.
  Any personal information you posted anywhere was posted voluntarily. Both the email address and personal information can be removed or replaced at any time.
  You may want to read this support doc:
  Private User Data https://en.support.wordpress.com/private-user-data/ and other information disclosed in the privacy policy https://automattic.com/privacy/

  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”:
  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