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Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

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The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is a service that helps users tired of Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, to "commit suicide in social networks," by automatically "removing their private content and friend relationships," (but without deleting or deactivating their accounts).[1][2][3][4][5]

To start the suicide process, the user has to provide his login credential for the social network from which he wants to be deleted, and then "watch your life passing by and reflect upon your real & virtual friends," while private content and friend relationships are removed. In the end the user is included in a memorial album of all the suicides, with his profile picture, his name and his "last words."[1]

The service is based in Rotterdam.[2] On January 2010, Facebook managed to block the service for a short time[3] and sent a Cease and desist letter from its lawyers,[2] but the service is still up and running. Its creators "consider this project as a piece of socio-political net art."[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b Suicidemachine FAQ
  2. ^ a b c d McNamara, Paul Facebook unleashes lawyers on Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, 12 Jan 2010
  3. ^ a b Facebook blocks 'Web 2.0 Suicide Machine'
  4. ^ http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954631,00.html
  5. ^ http://boingboing.net/2010/01/11/facebook-blocks-web.html
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