Delete your accounts

A short while ago I got a notification email saying that someone had friended me on Snapchat. A short while after that I got a notice from Disqus, the blog comment service, that ads would be coming to my comments section shortly. The twist is that I haven’t used either service in about a decade—I stopped using Disqus in 2016, when I moved the personal site to WordPress, and I deleted Snapchat from my phone ages ago on account of never actually using it. It’s just that I missed getting around to deleting the accounts that went with those services. Deleting an account after ignoring it for so long isn’t always straightforward. Not only did I have to reinstall Snapchat on my phone in order to delete my Snapchat account, but I had to dig out my Snapchat password from where I used to keep such things before Apple’s Passwords app. I also had to remember where I used to keep such things before Apple’s Passwords app. (Answer: Yojimbo, an app launched 20 years ago that still runs on my M4 Mac…