Only a month in existence and already Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (SM) has been banned by Facebook. In fact, SM publicizes this with the words, “2010 starts with a Facebook ban!”
Suicide Machine (http://suicidemachine.org/) was developed by Moddr, a company based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It is a site that allows you to disconnect from social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn) permanently. This means that you cannot resurrect yourself after Suicide Machine has severed your social networking connections.
To delete your profile in social networking sites, SM requires your username and password to the site. Then you can watch from your computer how quickly albeit one by one SM deletes your pictures, messages, friends, etc. They boast that manually deleting all profile information is never complete. Some remnants can be dug up in the future. However, when SM does it for the user, that will no longer happen.
Many bloggers think that the reason Facebook launched a war against sites the delete profiles is because their profit relies on the number of users. If their users decrease, so do their profits.
SM vows to find a way to continue their mission of providing freedom to Facebook users who want it. For now, nobody knows if they will succeed or be permanently prevented from getting into the social networking site.
