Here’s How You Can Almost Leave the Internet for Good

In the digital era we live in, the amount of profiles on social networks is growing each day. We share more and more information about ourselves, which leads to an increase in the exposure of photos you might think are OK at the moment, but later turn out to be an embarrassment for a future relationship, or contradicting the job you’ll be applying to. Maybe you’ve already encountered this, looking at your old self from 5-10 years ago and questioning your mental sanity at the moment you decided to hit the publish button. Well, fear no more, as some brilliant Swedish minds created a website where you’ll be able to eliminate almost every record of your past online trail, granting you the anonymity that was carelessly wasted in the past.

A nice, yet short measure

Truth being told, this is a very useful tool that many embarrassed users were asking for. However, the fact that it only allows to delete information that involves a Google account still leaves the door closed for those who created an account on a social media network using any other e-mail service. Furthermore, it isn’t possible to eliminate content from other people’s accounts, which means that if a friend publishes an embarrassing photo about you from last Friday night, you’ll simply have to live with it (or ask him/her very nicely to remove it). We can only hope that over time Deseat.me becomes more extensive and is able to cover more e-mail clients.