Digital Suicide
If you decided to try social networking and then decided you really didn't like it, you've probably figured out that there is no going back – at least for some of the social networks. And with Facebook in particular, completely removing your profile is pretty much impossible.
Enterthe Web 2.0 Suicide Machine…
LifeHacker described the new digital suicide machine earlier this month. Sign up for it and it will delete your friends, change your username (and not tell you what the new one is), change you password (and, again, not tell you what the new one is), and substitute a new image for your profilc picture. That's a lot more profound that simply "deactivating" your profile. After all, Facebook just knows you'll regret leaving in a few days and reativate your account (by just logging in).
It only took a few days for the people at Facebook to figure out how to block the application – raising new questions about privacy, and just how owns your profile…
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kind of like the euthanasia issue… does a doctor have the right to decide to keep a patient alive even if he expressly wants to die?
personally i think it’s a little silly (and narcissistic) for facebook to disallow the suicide machine, but i guess they’d lose money if people could just quit anytime they wanted to. sort of like big tobacco and their flagrantly addictive product.
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Although I disagree with Facebook blocking this service (I think you should be able to get rid of your profile whenever you want) I’m not sure if the Suicide Machine is the best way to go about it.
I was reading the FAQs on their site (http://suicidemachine.org/) and noticed that before deactivating your profile, they have you join the group “Social Networking Suiciders”. I’m not sure if that’s how I want to be “remembered” on the internet.
Furthermore, the service only works if you have 800 friends or less. The real FB addicts (who have over 800 friends) don’t really get the help they’re looking for.
While I like the idea of “taking back your freedom,” I think that if I ever decide to pull the social media plug, I’ll just do it myself.
I don’t want to have facebook anymore