Facebook Disallows Web 2.0 "Suicide Machine"

Posted 01/04/2010 at 2:19pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Despite the social web's spectacular expansion during recent times, it is not uncommon to find those who abstain from social networking sites just as an austere monk clings onto his virginity. You may also know a few people who have bid farewell to social networking sites for once and for all (not to mention those who delete their accounts only to resurface on the social web and so on and so forth). Now there is a ridiculously easy solution for killing your web2.0-self: the web2.0 Suicide Machine.

Based out of Netherlands, Suicide Machine is a website that automates the process of deleting a person's contacts on social networking sites, besides making the social networking profile inaccessible to even its owner. Although Facebook is among the sites that are supported – MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter are the others, Suicide Machine is currently unable to “kill” Facebook profiles. This is due to the fact that Facebook has blocked its IP address. The site's administrators are working on “ways to circumvent this ungrounded restriction imposed on our service.”Those mulling a web2.0 suicide, be amply warned that once initiated the process can not be stopped.