{"id":102,"date":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/0325geo\/trash-or-save-dealing-with-your-outdated-web-pages\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:21:06","slug":"trash-or-save-dealing-with-your-outdated-web-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/0325geo\/trash-or-save-dealing-with-your-outdated-web-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash or save? Dealing with your outdated Web pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

(CNN)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At this very moment, 500 miles above your freckle-pocked head, a half-million pieces of junk are orbiting around the Earth.<\/p>\n

Derelict spacecraft, chunks of machinery deliberately ejected from their vehicles, defunct satellites and even sad specks of paint from spaceships long gone all loop around the vacuity, a sad, eternal ballet of useless crap (according to an alarmingly cracker-barrelwebsite from NASA).<\/p>\n

But much closer to your fingers lies an equally vacuous void: the Internet, home to millions of pages of unwanted or abandoned debris, swirling slowly in the churn of search results and spider-combing.<\/p>\n

But figuring out how to handle your own outdated Web content is tricky business. Instead of doing the online equivalent of littering \u2014 sweeping yesteryear into a dustbin of 0s and 1s \u2014 refer to our handy guide for dealing with the past.<\/p>\n

Your wedding website \u2014 two weeks after the big day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Informative wedding pages are ever-so-useful in the months leading up to the nuptials; they provide travel and lodging information, present the greedy wedding registries in a nonobnoxious way and give us lots of opportunities to laugh in private over those\u00a0super awkward engagement pics\u00a0where the woman\u2019s standing behind the dude and clutching his pectorals and the guy\u2019s wearing an expression of laughing-gas bliss.<\/p>\n

But such sites lose much of their usefulness after the ceremony. And before long, they take on the gloating tone of a groom who\u2019s still using a wedding shot as his Facebook profile pic 11 months after the event.<\/p>\n

Our two cents: Update the website shortly after you return from your sun-soaked honeymoon with pictures from the event and an earnest, grateful message to all who were there in flesh or spirit. Don\u2019t beg guests to contribute their memories to an online guest book \u2014 they bought you a present; their obligation is done.<\/p>\n

Let the domain registration or hosting die out in the year following your wedding, and get on with it already.<\/p>\n

The Facebook profile of a loved one who\u2019s passed away<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently, a reader wrote in to ask what she should do with her departed stepdaughter\u2019s Facebook page. It\u2019s a tough scenario, and it might seem like a silly thing to worry about in the tangle of grieving.<\/p>\n

But Facebook actually has a memorialization feature, and there\u2019s good reason to take advantage of it: It freezes the account so no one else can log in as the user, and it allows only already-confirmed friends to write on the wall in remembrance. That person will no longer show up as a suggested photo tag or in \u201cpeople you may know.\u201d In short, it allows the Facebook page to become an homage, an interactive equivalent of a memory book.<\/p>\n

Check the\u00a0Facebook help page\u00a0for more information; family members also can shut down the account permanently, but in many cases the online memorial may be gentler on everybody.<\/p>\n

Your embarrassing relics of Web 2.0<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are of Generation Y, and you tapped away on a hulking desktop in your parents\u2019 den through your high school years, you probably have one or more of the following:<\/p>\n

\u2013 A Myspace page listing interests such as \u201cpurses!\u201d and \u201cvintage stores!\u201d and featuring an image of you looking haughtily up at a webcam<\/p>\n

\u2013 An embarrassing tapestry of snaps in your public Photobucket account<\/p>\n

\u2013 An angsty LiveJournal, Xanga or Blogspot account peppered with complaints about your parents\/teachers\/The Man, as well as various and sundry Dashboard Confessional lyrics.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re older, the references might change: websites someone made for that overly involved professional football league, a derailed blog purporting to document your child\u2019s first year of life, whatever.<\/p>\n

But the fact remains that these relics, when happened upon by bosses, new swains or those who have a vendetta against you, are just, well, embarrassing. Usually, making such exhibitionist accounts private will do the trick; if you can\u2019t remember your log-in information (and your e-mail address has changed, rendering the \u201cforgot your password?\u201d option useless), e-mail or call the company to ask it to log you in or take the page down.<\/p>\n

Because like those hulking chunks of orbital debris, you never know when they\u2019ll jet onto a dangerous collision course.<\/p>\n

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Mikheil Kharebov specializes in helping people on the subject of making money online from home through highly profitable & successful home based business. His website, www.EmpowerNetwork.com\/0325geo provide a wealth of informative articles and resources on everything you\u2019ll ever need to know about earning money online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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