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We have shared many reasons you should be using social media if you want to promote and your market your business these days.

But let’s be real, there are sometimes reasons you might want to cancel a social media account.

3 Reasons a Person Might Want to Shut down a Social Media Account

1. You never use it and, realistically, never will in the near future. (This could be due to a lack of desire or time.)

2. You can created too many accounts on the same social media site and can’t effectively update or manage them all. (Example: You have multiple twitter accounts and can’t keep them all updated.)

3. You can created too many account on different social media sites and can’t effectively update or manage them all.  (Example: You have accounts on facebook, twitter, linkedin, pinterest, tumblr, instagram, flickr, etc. and are not able to effectively use them all.)

 

WARNING: Please click the links to each of the social media sites below to understand whether or not you will be able to change your mind later – and how long you have to do that. If you deactivate an account, and then change your mind later, you could have to start all over from scratch – if you wait too long to reactivate it.

How to deactivate your Facebook account:

1. Sign in to Facebook.com.
2. Click the account menu  at the top right of any Facebook page
3. Select Settings
4. Click Security in the left column
5. Click Deactivate your account

(*Read what happens when you do this on Facebook.com)

 

How to deactivate your Twitter account:

1. Sign in to twitter.com on the web.
2. Go to your Account settings and click on Deactivate my account at the bottom of the page.
3. Read the account deactivation information. Click Okay, fine, deactivate account.  
4. Enter your password when prompted and verify that you want to deactivate your account.

(*Read what happens when you do this on Twitter.com)

 

How to deactivate your LinkedIn account:

You can close your only LinkedIn account on their Privacy & Settings page:

1. Move your cursor over your photo in the top right of your homepage and select Privacy & Settings.
   (You may be prompted to sign in to your account again to get to your settings.)
2. Click the Account side tab next to the shield icon near the bottom left of the page.
3. Under the Helpful Links section, select Close your account.

(*Read what happens when you do this on LinkedIn.com)

 

 

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