這款工具可以幫你抹去在網絡上的痕跡

在經歷選舉后的憤怒，假新聞的謠言和筋疲力盡之后，我們對社交媒體的熱情可能陷入了下降性循環。如果你有意減少自己在網絡上的足跡，一款名叫Deseat.me的工具可能會幫上大忙——盡管它不是完全的一鍵“卸載”式應用。

它最適合（可能也只適合）主要使用Gmail的用戶。通過谷歌（Google）賬戶登錄Deseat.me，它就會深入掃描該賬戶的網絡記錄，找出每個你用它注冊過的社交媒體網站、郵件服務和網店。你可以快速地勾選希望刪除或取消訂閱的服務。

對于其中的一部分服務，Deseat.me會給你提供注銷的鏈接，盡管這項功能似乎正是其局限性所在。

不過這項行為本身就是有意義的。還記得Klout嗎？Hype Machine呢？ Instapaper呢？我還記得，不過印象很模糊，因為多年前我曾經用過它們。不過在短暫的嘗鮮之后，我的郵箱地址，可能還有更多信息，都留在了那些公司的數據庫里。還有郵件服務——噢，無止境的，讓人尷尬的郵件服務，那都是當時我為了拿到有關Twitter禮儀的20多頁的電子書而注冊的。

現在我可以擺脫它們了，可能我早就應該這么做了。

當然，有些用戶可能想要選擇更徹底的方案——和Facebook、Twitter、Linkedin、Instagram、Tumblr、Pinterest和Soundcloud說再見。如果這樣，你的意志力比我更強，不過最后你可能會更加開心的。 （財富中文網）

譯者：嚴匡正

Between election bile, fake news, and just plain exhaustion, we may be entering a down cycle for social media. If you’re interested in downsizing your online footprint, a tool called Deseat.me could be a huge help – though it’s not quite a one-shot “unplug me” app.

It works best (and maybe only) if you use Gmail as your primary email account. Log in to Deseat.me through Google, and the service will do a deep dive into your records and pull up every social media site, mailing list, and online store you’ve ever signed up for. You can quickly tag the services you’d like to delete or unsubscribe from.

For a portion of them, Deseat.me will offer you direct links to the service’s unsubscribe page, though that functionality seems limited at this point.

But the exercise alone is edifying. Do you remember Klout? How about Hype Machine? Instapaper? I do, vaguely, because I used them all, once, years ago. But ever since those brief dalliances, my email address, and maybe more, have remained in those company’s databases. Then there are the mailing lists—oh, the endless, vaguely embarrassing mailing lists that I signed up for in exchange for some 20-page ebook on Twitter etiquette.

Now I can scrub them all. Which I probably should have done a long time ago.

But of course, some users may be looking for the real nuclear option—goodbye Facebook, goodbye Twitter, goodbye Linkedin and Instagram and Tumblr and Pinterest and Soundcloud. If so, you’re a stronger person than me, but you’ll probably end up happier for it.