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Should you delete accounts after you are done with their purpose? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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E.g. you used a service like for job hunting, submitted personal data, landed a job and are now done with it.

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[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, unless that service is the kind of thing you think you might pick up later.

For instance, you might use LinkedIn to find a job, but that can still be something you might need in the future, because it's unlikely you'll hold that one job forever, and intermittently posting during your existing job could actually help your future prospects.

By contrast, if you used a random site to create a fancier resume, yeah, that account can go straight in the digital wastebasket when you're done with it. You can always make a new account if you need to make a new resume, and it probably won't rely on your old account's data to get that job done.