Disappearing from the web

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Deleting your social media accounts
The first thing that will be bombed is the search results for your surname or nickname in a search engine. As a rule, these are accounts on Facebook, Vkontakte, Twitter, Youtube, Google+, and also wherever you use your real name.
We delete our profiles:

Removing a profile from Facebook
Use this link. But the account will not disappear right away. It can take up to 14 days for your profile to disappear completely. Be aware that all information is destroyed without the possibility of its recovery. Some messages may remain, but all marks will disappear. To disappear the photos where you are tagged, you just need to inform that you did not give your consent to the placement of this picture. You can also contact a friend directly and ask him to delete a certain photo.

Removing a profile from Twitter
To remove from Twitter, you need to go to "Settings" and at the very end there will be a link "delete my account". And you need it. Your account will be completely deleted, but your tweets will only disappear from search engines after a few weeks.

Deleting a profile from Vkontakte
In the page settings, in the "General" tab, again, at the very end of the page, you will find the link you need. Wait a month - the page will be deleted. If you need to quickly: delete all personal information, all photos and videos, all contacts. Perform the following manipulations: "My Settings"> "Privacy"> "Who can view my page"> "Only me"> "Save".

Deleting a profile from Google+
Getting out of Google+ is a little trickier as the profile is linked to your Google account. If you are determined, go to your account settings and follow the link "Delete profile and related Google+ services". Goodbye mail, calendars, cards and everything else!

If you are still determined to keep in touch with the outside world, and you only need to delete your Google+ account, follow this link and select "Delete Google+". At the same time, any other Google functionality will remain available.

Thus, you are removed from wherever you are registered under your real name. Can't remember all the sites where you have a profile? No problem! Use special tools with direct links to delete accounts, similar to the AccountKiller service, or try searching for yourself in the services from our previous article.

Removing yourself from search engines
Once you get rid of your social media profiles, their content will continue to float on the Internet. Photos, notes, resume. First of all, you need to find out where your information is shown online. Any search engine will help you with this. The only way to remove your data from these sites is to contact the resource directly and ask them to erase any information about you, or at least your name.

After that, you can contact search engines with a request to delete the edited pages or index them again. For example, Google has special services that will help you remove the content of a site or an image from Google search results.

It is not a fact that this will work. But it's worth a try. Your chances are increased if the posting violates your copyright, or the page displays sensitive information about you. If you can't completely remove yourself from the search engines, then you need to try to destroy all your personal data from your profiles as much as possible. So, besides your name, Internet detectives will not get anything else.

Getting rid of the plume of public life
In addition to social networks, there are so-called databases of people. For example, try to "punch" yourself or your neighbor on some of them: here, here, or here. You will most likely be surprised at the amount of information these databases provide.

You can delete all information about yourself for money ($ 99), or you can try to do the same yourself. And contact search engines like the ones mentioned above, or various social media and media monitoring systems, will help you with this.

By completing the third step, you will get rid of everything that may appear in the search results. But this will not remove absolutely all of your data from the network from everywhere. As long as your address or phone number is registered somewhere, people will be able to find you.

Removing nicknames associated with email
If you try hard, then by e-mail you can go to your nicknames and aliases that you used on different sites, blogs, forums. And this thread can already lead to your real name. The process for removing this information depends on the sites where you registered.

Ideally, if you manage to remove your main email from them, you should try to at least change your username. If we are talking about forums, ask the moderators to remove posts by which you can somehow identify you. Come up with new nicknames for each site.

Maintaining your anonymity
From now on, you should always be on the lookout to prevent your personal data from leaking online. No social networks with your real name and periodic monitoring of sites to make sure that no new information about you appears there. You will have to create accounts for a non-existent person, you can read about it.

But even after doing all of the above machinations, with a strong desire, information about you can still be found on the Internet. However, this will be much more problematic. At the very least, you will protect yourself from amateur detectives and increase the level of confidentiality of your personal data.