I have used the Internet ever since my dad got dial-up working somewhere between 1998-2000. Ever since then I've been glued to the magic of Internet. But what people don't often recoqnize is that they all leave a hefty footprint of what they are doing, and no I don't mean the carbon footprint you hippie bastard, I mean the Internet Footprint.
The following is my Quest for Erasing my Internet Footprint (or trying to lower it at least):
The first step you should always take is first see how much there is about you on the Internet. Now for this you should use the good ol' Google Search BUT bear in mind there are other search systems out there as well that function cardinally differently, so I Bing'd myself aswell.
What I found on Bing was, like Bing itself, useless (luckily) basically just some of my Facebook friends and petitions I've taken part of.
What I found on Google was a bit more worrying. My Twitter, my OLD Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Formspring and continued. For 11 pages. Oh boy... I guess this will take TIME...
Step 1. Old Twitter. Retrieve password, confirm with phone number... after all that crap you can finally deactivate your account BUT there's a twist, deactivation =/= deleteion, all your followers and followings disappear but the account itself stays there. Hopefully not for long, probably forever...
Internet 1:0 Me
Step 2. Formspring. Why did I ever get one? Ooh first time I used ESToomere as an username! Doesn't matter, this has to go. Oh thank THOR it still has me logged in! SUCCESS! It still has me on Google but now it just links to a picture with a sleeping puppy.
Internet 1:1 Me
Note 1. Apparently there's an actor named Erik Silver on IMDB and an accountant on LinkedIn. Interesting.
Note 2. And some important tennis guy. Gay.
Step 3. Steam. I won't even bother with that right now...
Internet 2:1 Me
Step 4. Shitty Freewebs page. Oh boy... I was afraid of this! Must destroy all the shadows of my past! I SUMMON THE SUN! Ooooh crap this has like a metric shit-tonne of personal information on me... ERIK FROM 7 YEARS AGO, WHY YOU SO DUMB? First, got to find a way in... recover the password from Hot.ee? Gah, what's the password for my Hot.ee!? ...I actually just guessed it. Winning. Now, is the horror mail from Freewebs here? YES, and passwords to bunch of old crappy sites I created with Freewebs, deletion AHOY!
MULTI-KILL, 3 crappy websites DOWN!
Internet 2:4 Me
DONE! I win!
