Can you possibly imagine the number of services you have signed up for since you started using the internet ? Take a guess ? So there was that Twitter account that you used for precisely two days and that Paypal that you made for a one-off transaction and on and on… Did you ever wonder whatever happens to these accounts, and more importantly, what happens to your personal information once you stop using them ?Â
You have probably even forgotten your username/password combos for half those services you barely used. Yet, these accounts linger out there in the big bad World Wide Web. That can’t possibly be good from a privacy point of view, can it ?
The truth is, that when most of us deem an online service ‘un-useful’ we simply move on without giving two hoots about what happens to our information. I bet that a lot of people abandoned their Orkut and MySpace accounts without bothering to delete or cancel them.Â
One primary reason for this behavior is that a lot of services make it very complex for a user to cancel his or her account. Take Skype, for example. Once you create a Skype account, you cannot delete it. You can only remove all personal information associated to it. I bet most us did not know that at all. With so many service providers, making sure that accounts are deleted is far from easy. How does a user ensure a complete removal of his/her account information?
Enter Wikicancel.org , a website that everyone should bookmark. A valuable resource that tells us the various steps involved in canceling a service account. From a Paypal account to a Netflix subscription, it covers them all. Heck, it even tells you how to cancel your AT&T without paying cancellation charges.
The site is kept up-to-date by enthusiastic contributors, and the list of services/subscriptions is growing day by day. Wikicancel.org saves you precious time wasted in searching for the right way to cancel a particular service and the annoyance caused by searching for a direct customer service phone number. Bookmark it now!
-Yogesh
I like this artical,and would like to be able to use Wikicancel BUT I can’t find were to set up an account. I tryed login but that only works if you all ready have a account.So if you could help me here it would be appericated.
You will need to copy and paste the link provided by worldstart instead of clicking on it.
Jon, I dropped in at the site and like you, could not find a place on main page to sign up. I finally clicked on the small icon, middle of page on right side, and it opened up what looks like the ‘Mother Ship’ – WikiMedia. There you can register. That’s the only place I could find. It does not mention “WikiCancel” anywhere that I could find, but…. Regards
How do you set up a new account in Wikicancel?
Isn’t this a little rediculous? That is, you want to register and can’t.
I coudn’t find JR Wright’s icon and I don’t what you mean by “copy and paste the link provided by worldstart instead of clicking on it”
Come on give us the secret code.
Jim