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    '''<dfn>delete your account</dfn>''' is an encouragement to delete your ([[silo]]) account, e.g. [[100DaysOfIndieWeb#More_100_days_projects]] related suggestion to do 100 days of deleting accounts. 

== Twitter ==
"Delete your account" as a phrase was significantly popularized by: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740973710593654784 (in reference to deleting a [[Twitter]] account in particular)

== Facebook ==
2018-03-19 [https://www.imore.com/delete-your-facebook Delete your Facebook / The only way to win the social game is not to play] summarily recommends deleting your [[Facebook]] account (and a few others in the closing paragraph) in response to their apparently very poor handling of [[private]] data. <blockquote>The only thing we can do is delete [[Facebook]]. And [[Facebook Messenger|Messenger]], and [[WhatsApp|Whatsapp]] [sic], and [[Instagram]], and every app like them.</blockquote> [[silo]] links added.

In 2018 March (around the same time), #DeleteFacebook was a trending [[hashtag]] on Twitter:
* https://twitter.com/hashtag/DeleteFacebook

2018-03-20:
* [[WhatsApp]] co-founder: https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/976231995846963201 <blockquote>It is time. #deletefacebook</blockquote>
* USA Today: [https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/03/20/whatsapp-co-founder-urges-people-delete-facebook/444105002/ WhatsApp co-founder urges people to delete Facebook] <blockquote> Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $16 billion, on Tuesday urged people to delete their accounts on the giant social network.<br/><br/>"It's time," wrote Acton, who quit Facebook earlier this year to start a foundation. He added the hashtag #DeleteFacebook.</blockquote>

== See Also ==
* [[silo-quits]]
* [[deleted]]