Hi Rick et al, The website has already been blocked by Facebook, so its usefulness has dropped substantially. Quote from the site: "After more than 50.000 friends being unfriended and more than 500 forever "signed-out" users, Facebook started to block our suicidemachine from their servers without any comment! We are currently looking in ways to circumvent this ungrounded restriction imposed on our service! Thanks for your understanding Sincerly, Your 2.0 suicide team" It's a good idea, though! Tama On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>wrote:
Interesting concept, though I wonder how long it will remain online. -rick
MSM article:
Wipe The Slate Clean For 2010, Commit Web 2.0 Suicide http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/31/web-2-0-suicide/
...and the site itself...
Tired of your Social Network?
Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Commit NOW!
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