How do you close your account?

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  beckyisaleopard · Member · Jun 29, 2014 at 7:09 pm

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  I wish to close my account, however I have tried nearly everything I can think of and I can’t close my account.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 29, 2014 at 7:18 pm

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  You cannot delete your wordpress.com username account. This is for security reasons so others cannot claim your username and impersonate you. But you can remove all personal information you added and effectively deactivate your account so no one will be able to access it. See timethief’s instructions in this thread on how to do that: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-account-276?replies=2