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[[A figure sits at a desk, using a laptop.]]
The Internet is filled with derelict accounts aggregating news about friends long forgotten.
<<Click>>
Laptop: Uhh, is everything OK?
<<Click>>
Laptop: Dude, what the Hell?
<<Click>>
When you find yourself drifting away from a community, remember to clean up after yourself by slowly unfriending everyone, one by one, in the reverse order that you added them.
{{Title text: If you close an account while it's still friends with people, it contributes to database linkage accumulation slowdown, which is a major looming problem for web infrastructure and definitely not a thing I just made up.}}
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