The internet is riddled with long-forgotten accounts on social media, dating apps and various shopping sites used once or twice.
互联网上充斥着被遗忘已久的社交媒体、约会应用和各种购物网站账户,这些账户都只使用过一两次。
Sure, you should delete all those unused logins and passwords.
当然了,你应该删掉所有这些不用了的登录和密码记录。
And eat your vegetables.
好好吃菜。
And go to the gym.
锻炼身体。
But is it even possible to delete your zombie online footprints — or worth your time to do so?
不过要完全去除你的网上僵尸印迹可能吗——又或者值得花时间去做吗?
Earlier this month, a little-used social network notified its few users that it will soon shut down.
这个月初,一个门可罗雀的社交网站告知它为数不多的用户说它很快会关闭了。
No, not Google Plus; that came five days later, following the disclosure of a bug that exposed data on a half-million people.
不,课别是是谷歌+呀;五天之后,随着一个漏洞曝光了50万人的数据,它也倒闭了。
The earlier shutdown involved Path, created by a former Facebook employee in 2010 as an alternative to Facebook.
更早关闭的网站还有“路径”,它是由一个前脸书员工在2010年创立的,作为脸书的替代品。
Then there's Ello sending you monthly emails to remind you that this plucky but little-known social network still exists somehow.
然后还有Ello会每月给你发邮件提醒你,这个大胆但鲜为人知的社交网络仍然存在。
It might not seem like a big deal to have these accounts linger.
继续留着这些账号好像也没多大关系。
But with hacking in the news constantly, including a breach affecting 50 million Facebook accounts, you might not want all that data sitting around.
但随着黑客不断出现在新闻中,其中包括影响到5000万个Facebook账户的一次入侵,你可能不希望你这些所有的数据都闲置着。
You might not have a choice if it's a service you use regularly.
如果是你经常使用的服务,你可能别无选择。
But for those you no longer use, consider a purge.
但对于那些你不再使用的,可以考虑清理门户了。
Plus, it might feel good to get your online life in order, the way organizing a closet does.
而且,整理好你的网络生活,就像整理衣橱一样,感觉不错。
Take dating apps such as Tinder, long after you found a steady partner or gave up on finding one.
就拿约会应用,比如TInder来说吧,你找到固定伴侣或者不想再找新对象了就可以删掉了。
You might have deleted Tinder from your phone, but the ghost of your Tinder account is still out there — just not getting any matches, as Tinder shows only "active" users to potential mates.
你可能已经把Tinder从你的手机上删除了,但是你的Tinder账户的幽灵仍然存在——只是没有得到任何匹配,因为Tinder只向潜在的伴侣显示“活跃”用户。
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