Let this zombie account go on?
May 21, 2012 10:35 AM Subscribe
Should I just let my zombie Yahoo! account alone?
What's the downside besides my personal sense of irritation and incompleteness to leaving an old Yahoo! account active but unused?
I just closed my Flickr account because Pro was up for renewal. I suppose it's possible if I wanted to open a new one, they'd see there was a Yahoo account under my name already & force me to use it.
The Yahoo account was merged with a PacBell DSL account. PacBell merged with SBC, then that with AT&T and I've moved, dropped DSL, then dropped my land line, but Yahoo's delete page still re-directs me to AT&T. I need to get an old bill so I'll have the magic 3 digits that follow the phone number to "prove" to them I'm the customer, but I'm guessing AT&T won't actually be able to delete this account anyway.
Additional wrinkle: an ex still uses an @pacbell.net address and another Yahoo account that's also merged with the DSL account and possibly a sub-account of mine. In a perfect world, the pacbell.net might have to die, but her Yahoo account could live on, but I doubt that'll be possible. I'm considering giving her six months, but I could also leave it active so she doesn't have to migrate.
If you've deleted an SBC/Yahoo, PacBell/Yahoo or AT&T/Yahoo account, I'd like to hear how it went.
What's the downside besides my personal sense of irritation and incompleteness to leaving an old Yahoo! account active but unused?
I just closed my Flickr account because Pro was up for renewal. I suppose it's possible if I wanted to open a new one, they'd see there was a Yahoo account under my name already & force me to use it.
The Yahoo account was merged with a PacBell DSL account. PacBell merged with SBC, then that with AT&T and I've moved, dropped DSL, then dropped my land line, but Yahoo's delete page still re-directs me to AT&T. I need to get an old bill so I'll have the magic 3 digits that follow the phone number to "prove" to them I'm the customer, but I'm guessing AT&T won't actually be able to delete this account anyway.
Additional wrinkle: an ex still uses an @pacbell.net address and another Yahoo account that's also merged with the DSL account and possibly a sub-account of mine. In a perfect world, the pacbell.net might have to die, but her Yahoo account could live on, but I doubt that'll be possible. I'm considering giving her six months, but I could also leave it active so she doesn't have to migrate.
If you've deleted an SBC/Yahoo, PacBell/Yahoo or AT&T/Yahoo account, I'd like to hear how it went.
I considered closing down my Yahoo account (or letting it die a slow, lonely death) about 10 years ago. Instead, I kept checking it every three months or so, deleting tons of spam.
Surprisingly, there was a valid email one day. An old high school friend had committed suicide and another friend had found my Yahoo email address on Google and written to let me know about the death.
I was glad I had left it open and still check it today.
This was pre-Facebook, though, so it probably wouldn't be an issue nowdays.
posted by tacodave at 4:05 PM on May 21, 2012
Surprisingly, there was a valid email one day. An old high school friend had committed suicide and another friend had found my Yahoo email address on Google and written to let me know about the death.
I was glad I had left it open and still check it today.
This was pre-Facebook, though, so it probably wouldn't be an issue nowdays.
posted by tacodave at 4:05 PM on May 21, 2012
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posted by Melismata at 10:46 AM on May 21, 2012