Social media continues to grow and more people are finding themselves spending an increasing amount of time on places like Twitter or Facebook. So much time in fact that some are worrying if this isn’t affecting other aspects of their lives. Thankfully, if you’re one of those wanting to leave it all behind for good, a number of sites have popped up which offer ‘virtual suicide’, a means of deleting your online identities. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn’t like these kind of sites too much and has been fighting to block them starting with Sepukoo and now moving on to “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine,” a website offering a similar way of deleting your accounts and data from Facebook and other sites.
“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!,” the site now informs its visitors in a popup overlay.
It’s obvious why Facebook doesn’t like the site very much but, like with Sepukoo before, it does have a legitimate claim in blocking it as it clearly violates at least a couple of Facebook’s policies. The social network’s terms of service specifically prohibit users from handing out t… (read more)