{"id":135735,"date":"2010-01-04T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/04\/social-network-suicide-not-if-facebook-can-help-it-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:02:16","slug":"social-network-suicide-not-if-facebook-can-help-it-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135735","title":{"rendered":"Social Network Suicide? Not If Facebook Can Help It [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>Will 2010 be the year that Internet users cut back on friending, tweeting and connecting with their long-lost acquaintances?<\/p>\n<p>A site called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is banking on it. It offers to help visitors \u201ckill\u201d their online presence on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn by clicking a \u201ccommit\u201d link (complete with a noose icon).<\/p>\n<p>It works by prompting users for their account information, then removing their friends, updates and other content, then changing the password and logging out \u2014 leaving an intact but bare profile.<\/p>\n<p>The site offers this service for free and coaxes the uncertain with words like \u201cdelete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles,\u201d \u201cfeel free like a real bird again and untwitter yourself\u201d and \u201cyou want your actual life back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/01\/04\/social-network-suicide-not-if-facebook-can-help-it\/?mod=\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100104\/social-network-suicide-not-if-facebook-can-help-it\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal Will 2010 be the year that Internet users cut back on friending, tweeting and connecting with their long-lost acquaintances? A site called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is banking on it. It offers to help visitors \u201ckill\u201d their online presence on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn by [&hellip;]<\/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-135735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135735","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=135735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}