How to Get Rid of MyLife.com Profile

Google your own name and see what comes up.  For most people, unless you are an accomplished author or blogger or social media guru with tons of articles written about you a mylife.com profile page will appear within the first few search results for your name.  How did they get my information?  How come they know so much about me?  How do they have all of this information if I never gave it to them?  How do I protect my internet privacy (great book on internet anonymity and privacy)?  How can I get rid of these negative SEO results?

Don’t freak out!  Chances are, as they are with 99% of people with mylife.com profile pages, that you did not consciously sign up for an account.  I know that I didn’t.  Basically, mylife.com aggregates and combines all different pieces of public information about you from the internet (think your Facebook account, myspace.com, twitter, public governmental information and white pages information) and creates a profile page for you.  This can be really annoying and feel like an invasion of privacy (learn more Internet Privacy For Dummies.

Although it feels like an invasion of privacy, it really is not.  It is just taking all the public information about your scattered across the net and porting it into one place for all to see.  Even so, mylife.com public profile pages are annoying, creepy and just plain horrible.  Sites like mylife.com have good SEO (search engine optimization) placement because they are incredibly large sites and compete well against all other search results for most individual people’s names and therefore come up on the first page google for most people when they search their name.

But…how to get rid of mylife.com profile that I never created in the first place?  In order to get rid of your mylife.com profile you have to first go to the profile that is offending you in the first place and click where it says ‘Is this you’ and follow in the instructions to claim your account.  Only after claiming your account can you deactivate the public profile and remove your mylife.com profile from the internet.  By the way, mylife.com makes it incredibly difficult to get rid of your mylife.com public profile and this process is just as aggravating as finding mylife.com in the first place.  According to their website, it can take up to 2 weeks to get rid of a mylife.com profile after claiming your profile and choosing to deactivate it.  After Google updates its servers you will no longer see mylife.com come up when you search for your name and you will feel a little less creepy when you search your name on Google!