I just deleted 36K tweets
I wish we could petition y-combinator to allow them to allow a member to delete their Hacker News account and comments.<p>This year for spring cleaning. I deleted facebook, twitter, disqus, and thousands of comments I left on websites from over a decade ago. No archiving, just permanent deletion. It was the the most beautiful feeling. I felt free. Like a new person. Like there wasn&#x27;t a part of me roaming around on the internet building up dust anymore.<p>I know space is cheap and startups love data but we should study what all that does to a person emotionally.<p>IF {Google Glass was suppose to keep us connected &#x2F;BUT&#x2F; Google glass failed because we felt too connected &#x2F;BECAUSE OF&#x2F; a human emotional desire to be left alone and let the mind relax.}<p>THEN {Permanently archiving all your content is suppose to be a feature &#x2F;BUT&#x2F; people are deleting their content &#x2F;BECAUSE OF&#x2F; a human emotional desire to start over, clean up, and not leave things strewn about}<p>That being said I really wish the Hacker News team would add a &quot;DELETE ACCOUNT and all comments&quot; feature. It&#x27;s ironic that Y-Combinator&#x27;s hacker news team stands up for so many positive internet movements yet feel that they can permanently keep all the content I generated. It is MY content after all. Do they own the copyright to MY words? The excuse has always been &quot;it&#x27;s a part of the public dialog&quot;. Everything is. Facebook, Twitter, &amp; Disqus are also part of the public dialog. And they let me delete myself off of their services.