The online accounts application can be accessed from either the user menu, or system settings (the option directly underneath 'online accounts' in the user menu), and this seems to add confusion as well as create unecessary duplication.

When my family clicks on the user-menu to shut down the computer, or to change status to avail/unavail, they are unclear if they have to go in here to disable their online accounts. Or as my mother said, she thought that was how to go online. 

In fact, the purpose seems to be configure it once and then forget about it. So it is confusing to me as well, as to why it is in such a readily available space instead of the more natural placement of it, in the system settings menu, where it also currently resides.

I can use an extension to hide the online accounts from them, but perhaps this ought to be the default behaviour of the user menu, and not require an extension.