[endisneigh]

Personally I think it’s a bad idea to delete any of your accounts. It becomes a huge hassle to claim anything if there’s a situation in which you need an account that can show that you have ownership.

In particular if you see a photo of you or yours somewhere and want it modified or removed.

Not to mention there’s really no value in deletion. Log out, stop using all of the clients. The end.

[kibwen]

Whether or not you have an account with a service should not matter here. If your country doesn't grant you the legal right to get a photo taken down, then a service won't take it down even if you have an account. And if you do have the legal right do have a photo taken down, then the service will take it down even if you don't have an account, lest they become victim to a lawsuit that they will easily lose.

[sdevonoes]

> Not to mention there’s really no value in deletion. Log out, stop using all of the clients. The end.

I see value in deleting information about me on the Internet. Not to hide it from companies like Facebook (because they probably hold you data even if you delete them), but from other people. You never know who can use your pictures/profile for. Obviously, the first step would be to not publish sensitive information about yourself, but if that ship has already sailed, well, the least you can do is to remove it before you "log out and stop using all the clients".

[endisneigh]

You don’t need to delete your account to hide it. Deleting your account simply just stops your ability to prove who you are if you later find your stuff archived or mirrored somewhere.

I don’t really see what you gain by deletion. Better off running one of many scripts to delete all your data and retain the account

[mrtesthah]

Isn’t this the use case for Keybase?