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How to break bad habits
How habits are formed
The importance of consistency
Emails
Deleting older messages frees up storage space and makes future searches faster too.
In the case of Gmail, there's no automatic way to wipe old emails, so you'll need to remind yourself to do it regularly. The search term you need to put in the box at the top of the web interface is "older_than:" followed by your time period. Use "older_than:1y" to find emails older than a year, for instance, or "older_than:6m" to find emails older than 6 months.
With the search results on screen, you can select all the matching messages (use the check box to the top left) and erase them.
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Social Media
Twitter is the social network that you're probably most interested in when it comes to expunging older messages, and it's also the one that offers the most tools for the job.
If you want to keep a copy of your messages on your computer before you wipe them from the web, you can download yo...
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Why clean it up?
- First, it means nothing from our past can come back and embarrass us.
- Second, it makes it harder for advertising companies to keep track of what we're up to online.
- And third (in the case of files and emails at least), it frees up space for new stuff.
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