If you close an account while it's still friends with people, it contributes to database linkage accumulation slowdown, which is a major looming problem for web infrastructure and definitely not a thing I just made up.
![[[A figure sits at a desk, using a laptop.]] The Internet is filled with derelict accounts aggregating news about friends long forgotten. <<Click>> Laptop: Uhh, is everything OK? <<Click>> Laptop: Dude, what the Hell? <<Click>> When you find yourself drifting away from a community, remember to clean up after yourself by slowly unfriending everyone, one by one, in the reverse order that you added them.](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/old_accounts.png "If you close an account while it's still friends with people, it contributes to database linkage accumulation slowdown, which is a major looming problem for web infrastructure and definitely not a thing I just made up.")