One old problem causing 2 new ones

Question

Before you get into the meat of this post let me say that part of my job involves some pretty high security and I also am always on call. I have skype accounts with just 1 contact in them specifically for when I do not want to be found in my off time. That should make the rest of this post and why I am mad as H-- about all this a bit more understandable.
A month ago I got my first smartphone, a Galaxy s4 and my primary reason for this is because I have family in Australia and friends in London. I don't have the time to game or use a phone for much other than using it as a phone and 98% of the apps it came with I will never have a use for so I didnt need a big powerful phone with all the toys and software. For the first few days everything was fine.  I had heard about some of the problems others have had with smartphones and now everything that made me wait to get a smartphone is happening to me.
The history started piling up. Now on my pc's I'm one of these that removes history every day sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. I have no use for it and do not want it on any of my devices and see no purpose for saving it. THAT's WHY IT's History. Over, done with old news.
So I follow all the links in here and have the same issues everyone else is having. So I decide to uninstall it permanently. NOW I show up online constantly as If i am logged in somewhere and nothing I do seems to make any difference. I cant even clear it up by logging into any of my pc's So I reinstall the app, theres no place to log out. Theres also no way to log out and sign in with a different account, it only wants to ADD another account. I DO NOT WANT ONE ACCOUNT INFORMATION SHARED WITH THE OTHER.
I had this same problem with twitter and facebook and some other social sites and google as well.  I have social pages that are work related and i have ones for my personal life and I also have a few others for some of the games I run. Everything in this phone (and windows 8 as well) wants to share everything these days and the problem is it creates account issues and other problems. Sharing anything should be an option not a must do.
So far 97% of the things I bought this phone for I cannot use because of sharing and history issues.
I shouldnt have to have one phone for work, one phone for my personal life.. As for skype it seems ever since microsoft got involved with skype its been an endless mess of problems one after another.  I am having the same sharing issues with windows 8, which is why I went back to windows 7. And google is just as bad.
There should be a history button. There should be a logout/login function. Skype SHOULD have the same functionality that it has on a pc device. and no I dont want to share my contacts from account to account or social media to social media all for the same reasons. Work is work, and home time is hometime. merging everything into the same app creates setting and login issues and it completely killed my twitter account and merged it with my work account. Besides I have 5 skype accounts specifically for this reason. To keep work separate from personal time.
There is a such thing as too much sharing. But the droid version of skype is a disater. I had really hoped for something better for all i pay for this but I am ready to go back to a normal phone and everyone will just have to wait til i get home on my PC to be able to do things in a normal way. Becauee of my job I cannot take the security risks of even accidently merging my work account with my personal ones. A user should be able to manage software on any device as needed not the other way around. I own the device, it does not own me and i should be able to run it as i need to.
This is also the same complaints I hear from other people as well. Small wonder apple is breaking sales records.
Anyway how do I get my account back to normal so that if im logged in its green and if im not its white like normal? YELLOW AWAY MODE IS NOT AN OPTION BECAUSE OF MY WORK! and how can i actually "log out" and still use the rest of this phone? how do i permantently remove history without having to hold each contact down and why don't it have a checkbox to not save history at all?
I'll be waiting for answers and thanks. I really hope some devs read this. this app is un-useable for me the way it is.
Edit: oh yeah and while I am at it before someone askes, yes I did try a full system restore to defaults on my phone .....3 times to be exact.
Nothing makes any difference.
Another edit: it would make a lot more sense, not only in skype but several other apps and social media as well to have a button to "save this conversation to a file" and have it not save anything by default unless you checkd a box to do so all the time. but then again that would be normal logic, which is something that seems to be elusive to software manufacturers these days.

Answer 1

you CAN sign out -- on just about any 'main' screen (Recent, Favorites, or Peole), tap the context menu button to see "Sign out"
you CANNOT delete your chat history (some weeks worth are held automatically server-side and they are deleted automatically as they age) -- so don't leave yourself signed in if you are worried about prying eyes, and don't set Skype to sign in automatically
also, see the Settings section labeled Contacts to see how Skype can interact with the contact list of your phone . . . or not
note:
I do not work for Skype and I am not defending the way it is either, so please don't get your back up at me
Regards,
Neil