Switched to MySpace? Started using Jaiku instead of Twitter? As you create an online life and try out all these services you might gather accounts everywhere while most of them might be redundant. I decided to get rid of a few accounts today as I think it is generally a good plan. Here are a couple of reasons why:

1. Speak out: Did you try out a service that you actually thought to be the worst product ever? Than why not unsubscribe to show that you don’t like it. I think that with webservices and social networks using number of registered users as a standard of how successful their business is, it is even more important to let them hear your voice by unsubscribing. 
2. Create less email overhead: I know that it is easy to just mark those newsletters as spam these days, even more if you have an online mail client like Gmail. I personally have gone so far as marking some of my newsletters as spam because I know that unsubscribing is too much work. 
3. Remove your data: When you remove an account, read the use policy of the service and see if they are obliged to remove your data. I think this is important as I don’t want to leave my info lying around everywhere. You actually don’t know for sure what happens to all your data if a webservice stops running.