One thing I have thought about. I have dozens of profiles which are just test accounts for social media, to hook up to applications I've been building.

I've been thinking recently to just close all the accounts, including email.

This will leave me in a state where I have pretty much no social accounts, just 1 email account which is used for friends/family.

Are there any cases of individuals giving up their phone and it being a wasteland of information? I personally do not use facebook, google-plus, twitter, linkedin or anything else. I literally do not have an opinion, nor do I care to share it!

Edit: Do they also check when email accounts have been created? How could they know, unless they checked in with the provider? I'm thinking of closing my main account, requesting data be deleted and starting afresh!