Should users be deleted after inactivity on a website?

Posted by Hovaness Bartamian on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Hovaness Bartamian
Published on 2012-12-07T07:37:42Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 11:19 UTC
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When you have a social website or a website where you can register, would you eventually delete them after a certain time (after a year of inactivity) or would you rather keep their account records for ever?

I know websites like Facebook have large amount of inactive, duplicated and fake accounts. So I'm wondering if after two years of inactivity it would be alright to send the account a warning email of deletion unless they log in.

Just thinking of a clean and efficient database management or any implications this may cause to new potential users.

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