The other day, a friends told me, "Hey, I didn't know you were on SnapChat! I sent you a follow request (or its Snap equivalent)."
Me: 
"Say, what?"
So she went on to show me my phone number on Snap .
Then I remembered that when I was much younger (and stupider), I'd created this account on Snap to try it out. I''d anyway hated it, and hence, uninstalled it.
Snapchat is something I definitely don't want to associate myself with.
You know how it is when the demons of your past come back to haunt you! 😉
So, take some time to remember and jot down all the websites, services, and apps you had ever registered with and don't use now, and then delete those accounts.
DELETE NOT UNINSTALL!!!
By the way, Snap says it will keep my account deletion in "hold" for 30 days, in case I wish to come back to reactivate it. 😐
@frankie fwiw Snap keeps everything for a minimum of 30 days, not just for account deletion.
It's pretty deceptive I think. From the user's perspective chats and stories go poof after a day, but Snapchat hangs on to the data for a while. You know, in case of law enforcement requests and totally not data mining.
@b6hydra
ah, thanks for the info.!
Most big tech firms do that, I think. Personally, I'd experienced this with Microsoft and Facebook, apart from Snap.