By Lionel Gibbons

Sometimes it seems like a new “must join” web site pops up every day. Besides the mainstays of Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, there are dozens of social networking sites competing for a slice of our attention. 

If you’re like me, you probably join them all — just to see what they’re all about. After a while, you’re a member of more sites than you can ever hope to patronize with any regularity. You may even be thinking about getting out. Cutting the social-networking cord. But have you actually tried to quit? Not so easy, eh? Many of these sites make the quitting process less than obvious.

Fortunately, the folks at AllThingsD have put together A Handy Guide to Deleting Digital Accounts to help guide the way.

If you’ve decided to unplug from parts of the web-o-sphere, tell me about your experience. How did it go? Did you say out, or were you sucked back in by the allure of being connected?