Account deletion doesn't really yield the results people tend to want anyway. If someone finds you on Google, and you freak out and delete your account, they can just go onto Google and look in Google's cache of your content, and read it anyway.

I resurrected a lot of Oasis content lost in a database crash through archive.org, which took snapshots of a lot of Oasis content over the years.

The main thing is to keep identifying information out of posts, no school names, last names, e-mail addresses, myspace accounts, IM names, etc. Then you're pretty secure online.

I sort of think of online privacy the same way you should go into a sexual encounter: protect yourself, always. The same measures that can keep your Oasis content hard to find for people in your life who don't know your sexuality are the same measures that keep you safe from people online with malicious intent.

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