It’s done. My Google Account is gone.
If you are interested in joining the anti-big-brother-cancel-google revolution with me, here are the simple instructions: ”Canceling your Gmail address“! Funny, this is answer 8152 in Gmail’s Help Topics. I am sure there are 10’s of thousands of help topics, but you’d think that canceling would be in the 100’s, not the thousands.
If you haven’t followed, I have blogging about this divorce. See the the memesist tag Divorce, for example. http://memesist.wordpress.com/tag/divorce/ Or just read below if you’re coming from the trimmed url.
Initially, I was planning on a more comprehensive divorce. Surgically removing each application from my Google profile. But, I don’t have the time. So, I decided the “nuclear” approach was most efficient. It always is.
Shortly, the few folks that are still in my address book will get a notification, the final notification. These folks will get my new email addr.
Goodbye emails from Papa Johns, Goodbye emails from AT&T Account Manager, Goodbye Zappos (I am still a customer though), see you later over-hyped EarthAid, ReserveAmerica, CVS, Watchovia, Wells Fargo and others.
Goodbye GOOGLE. It’s been a pleasure feeding off your brilliance, slurping your nectars. Sadly, your blood has gone sour. I am off to look for another host. Hello Bing, Hello again Yahoo! How’s it going WolframAlpha!
Oh, btw, the “sort of” in the subject line, refers to the unfortunate, inevitable reality that every now and then, Google will need to be used. I’ll temper this when possible. But if I bump into Google in a public place, I will be gentlemanly, I will say hello warmly, then proceed to the next guest.
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- Goodbye Google.
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- Confirmation of Cancelation
Postscript: Someone recently alerted me to the amount of data that creditors have on me. That’s the next campaign, get rid of credit. Sometime, ask me about the other businesses that I am boycotting. Despite the positive message from their PR departments, they are NOT in it for you, they care about their stakeholders.
