Deletion of Account not Blog

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  iinactiveuser · Member · Oct 23, 2017 at 9:27 am

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  Why can’t I delete my account? Why am I only able to leave it inactive? It’ll still be under my email, y’know?

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  taniametalli · Member · Oct 23, 2017 at 9:47 am

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  Hi there,

  Your WordPress.com username cannot be deleted. The username is kept, so it cannot be taken by someone else, to try and impersonate you.

  However, you can change your email address, and any personal information, by following the steps you’ll find here:
  ttp://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  Hope this helps.

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  taniametalli · Member · Oct 23, 2017 at 9:54 am

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  The correct url for that page is:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

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  iinactiveuser · Member · Oct 23, 2017 at 10:09 am

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  I already skimmed through that. It didn’t have what I was looking for, which is/was (again) the option of deleting my account, including but limited to, my email, password, username, profile, etc.

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  taniametalli · Member · Oct 23, 2017 at 10:30 am

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  While you can’t delete the account as such, for the reasons I mentioned above, you can still change all your personal information (email, username, password, profile, etc.), so that it’s not associated with you anymore.

  You can do that from the Account Settings:

  Account Settings

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  iinactiveuser · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 7:58 am

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  That really isn’t what I’m hoping for though. Since it’s all I can do, that’s what I’ll do. Thank you for your time.