{"id":113931,"date":"2009-12-30T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Facebook-Sends-Virtual-Suicide-Site-Seppukoo-a-Cease-and-Desist-130872.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-30T04:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T09:39:00","slug":"facebook-sends-virtual-suicide-site-seppukoo-a-cease-and-desist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/113931","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Sends 'Virtual Suicide' Site Seppukoo a Cease and Desist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media can be a great thing but just like anything else, overuse can lead to sometimes damaging behavior. Facebook pretty much defines online social interaction these days and it’s not that easy to let it go. An interesting alternative has popped up, Seppukoo, a website offering Facebook users an honorable way out by committing ‘virtual suicide’. And the best part is that you won’t pass away quietly, all your Facebook friends will be able to visit a memorial page set up on Seppukoo.com. Facebook though isn’t finding the site particularly amusing and, not only has it begun blocking it, it’s also getting its lawyers involved, as the LA Times blog found.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, after the site had already been blocked, Seppukoo got a legal letter claiming that it violated Facebook’s Rights and Responsibilities, the social network’s Terms of Service, on five accounts. Some of the claims can be argued with but, unfortunately for Seppukoo, some are clear violations of the terms. <\/p>\n

The five claims are:
\n– Soliciting users’ Facebook login information.
\n– Accessing a Facebook account that belongs to someone else.
\n– Collecting users’ content or information using automated means.
\n– Sending commercial communications.
\n– Using Facebook’s intellectu… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social media can be a great thing but just like anything else, overuse can lead to sometimes damaging behavior. Facebook pretty much defines online social interaction these days and it’s not that easy to let it go. An interesting alternative has popped up, Seppukoo, a website offering Facebook users an honorable way out by committing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}