这款工具可以帮你抹去在网络上的痕迹

在经历选举后的愤怒，假新闻的谣言和筋疲力尽之后，我们对社交媒体的热情可能陷入了下降性循环。如果你有意减少自己在网络上的足迹，一款名叫Deseat.me的工具可能会帮上大忙——尽管它不是完全的一键“卸载”式应用。

它最适合（可能也只适合）主要使用Gmail的用户。通过谷歌（Google）账户登录Deseat.me，它就会深入扫描该账户的网络记录，找出每个你用它注册过的社交媒体网站、邮件服务和网店。你可以快速地勾选希望删除或取消订阅的服务。

对于其中的一部分服务，Deseat.me会给你提供注销的链接，尽管这项功能似乎正是其局限性所在。

不过这项行为本身就是有意义的。还记得Klout吗？Hype Machine呢？ Instapaper呢？我还记得，不过印象很模糊，因为多年前我曾经用过它们。不过在短暂的尝鲜之后，我的邮箱地址，可能还有更多信息，都留在了那些公司的数据库里。还有邮件服务——噢，无止境的，让人尴尬的邮件服务，那都是当时我为了拿到有关Twitter礼仪的20多页的电子书而注册的。

现在我可以摆脱它们了，可能我早就应该这么做了。

当然，有些用户可能想要选择更彻底的方案——和Facebook、Twitter、Linkedin、Instagram、Tumblr、Pinterest和Soundcloud说再见。如果这样，你的意志力比我更强，不过最后你可能会更加开心的。 （财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

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.