[Air-L] Web 2.0 'Suicide Machine'

[Michael Zimmer]

Interesting from a rhetorical/psychological perspective that removing oneself from social media is dubbed "suicide".....

-mz

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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
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On Jan 3, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Richard Forno wrote:

> 
> Interesting concept, though I wonder how long it will remain online.   -rick
> 
> MSM article:
> 
> Wipe The Slate Clean For 2010, Commit Web 2.0 Suicide
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/31/web-2-0-suicide/
> 
> ...and the site itself...
> 
> http://suicidemachine.org/
> 
> Tired of your Social Network?
> 
> Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. 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!
> 
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