Cleaning Up: Deleting Your Accounts and Leaving No Trace

Once the Technology Tune-Up program is over you are free to do what you wish with the various accounts you have created. We hope that some of you might keep your blogs going, build your collection of bookmarks on delicious, or use your social network pages to stay in tough with family and friends.

Some of you though may want to remove all traces of your Technology Tune-Up experience. We have set up this page to outline the various steps you can take to sweep up the various digital breadcrumbs you have created.

A word of warning: Deleting any of these accounts will also delete anything saved to the account (emails, saved photos, etc.). This is a permanent step, so make sure you have saved everything you want to keep elsewhere before you go through with deleting an account.

Click the links below to jump to each set of instructions.
Google Account Gmail Blog MySpace Facebook LinkedIn Flickr delicious

To delete all Google Services:
1. Visit Google and sign in using your Google Account.
2. Click on “My Account.” A list of your Google Products will appear.
3. Click on “Edit” next to the My Services list.
4. Select “Close Account.” This is a permanent deletion of all your Google associated accounts and stored information.

To delete your Gmail Account:
1. Log in to Gmail and select “My Account.”
2. Click on “Edit” next to the My Services list.
3. Select “Delete Gmail service.” This will permanently remove your Gmail account.

If you delete your blog (or at least the Tune-Up content) please let Joy Anhalt know so that the link to your blog can be removed the Staff Blogs page.