Join me on a Social Media Odyssey: the quest to close my Ecademy account
Sat June 6th 2009:
Although I’ve not been on Ecademy for a while and am only there with a free (grey star) account, a Tweet from a friend drew me back to read a blog. Actually, to witness a long-drawn out, destructive argument. I made the mistake of adding a comment to the effect of ‘This is why I don’t come here any more”. The result was an email notification of every subsequent comment on the thread. Doh.
So I went back in to turn off all email notifications. Fine, I thought. I’ll just leave it at that and simply not go there. I turned off all notifications in my account control panel but still the emails keep coming. Doh!
Ok, I thought, time to leave for good. So I went looking for a ‘close my account’ button. Guess what? I can’t find one. So I searched in the ‘Help’ section with “close my account” and “how to close my account” and “closing my account” and got no results. Curious.
Next step – go to Google. All I found were a few comments about how impossible it seems to be to leave. Interesting.
Since I’m only a free member of Ecademy, I can’t start blogs but I can respond to them, so I hi-jacked a thread with a request for information on how to leave. Trouble is, I’ll have to go back into Ecademy to find out if there are any replies. Doh.
Finally, I sent a ’support request’ – see screen shot (right). It’s very straightforward so I’ll be interested to see what happens next.
Easy. Get yourself banned. They will delete you thoroughly.
To do that, just dare to question the Ruling Families (the Powers or the Watkinses) about anything they say. Membership figures is a good area. Or the value of BlackStar.
Good luck!