Web 2.0 Suicide Machine gets banned by Facebook

Have you ever thought of deleting your Twitter and Facebook accounts? Well, it did occur to me once in a while, when I was too fed up with spams and nonsense in the network. With time, I have learnt to get way with such thoughts by being more patience and optimistic.

But many people may not be able to handle the frustration, hence committing, what is known as, a Web 2.0 Suicide. Yes, delete your all pictures and pages from your Facebook account, or delete all your friends and completely disappear from social web 2.0.

The application, sucidemachine, is a one click application which allows you to remove all your social profiles Twitter, facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn with just a click. This is how they are preaching their service:

“Tired of your Social Network? Liberate

your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy-su

cking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alter ego. 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!”

You can clearly feel the negative vibe in the statement. Apparently, it seems that many people have used the application to get rid of their social profiles. As a result, Fa

cebook have taken a defensive stance by blocking the application from accessing Facebook.

The web site have currently posted the message below :

“After more than 50,000 friends being unfriended and more than 500 forever “signed-out” users, Facebook started to block our suicide machine from their servers without any comment! We are currently looking in ways to circumvent this ungrounded restriction imposed on our service!”

Facebook have claimed that suicidemachine violates some of their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Facebook had recently announced their 350 million user and I am pretty sure they would not want those numbers to fall.

Mass suicide is a very controversial issue not only in this case but in reality too. To die is one’s right, but its against society and is considered a crime. Society is a conscious being which prevents any form of mass killing because such activities threaten the existence of society. In a similar way, the application above may not violate any rules or regulations, but is a potential threat to the growth of online social networks. Hence, Facebook’s action to block the application is very justifiable.

On the other hand, we have third party application’s right which conditions which stand strong. Its a simple service that simply allows you to deleter everything, what wrong is there? Currently, both that parties are in talk and Facebook is investigating the application. Till then we can only speculated. Let us know how you feel about the service.

source: http://socialmedia.globalthoughtz.com