Facebook bans Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- “Tired of your Social Network?” – asks Web 2.0 Suicide Machine.
“Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide!”
You might want to do that because the social networking ‘ service’ of your choice may be screwing with your private and personal information, using it for nefarious advertising purposes.
“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,” says the suicide machine.
But, “Not if I can help it”, says Mark Zuckerberg, who runs social advertising network Fa$ebook.
Web2.0 suicide has been blocked from accessing Fa$ebook users’ profiles, says the BBC, pointing out Fa$ebook did the same to Seppukoo.com, last year.
Offering a similar service, it was on the sharp end of a”cease and desist” letter, says the story, adding >>>
Netherlands-based moddr, behind Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, says it believes that “everyone should have the right to disconnect”.
However Facebook says that by collecting login credentials, the site violates its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR).
“Facebook provides the ability for people who no longer want to use the site to either deactivate their account or delete it completely,” the company said. “We’re currently investigating and considering whether to take further action.”
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine claims that it only stores the name, profile picture and “last words” of its clients, who can choose to watch their friend/follower connections disappear in real time as their profiles unlink from others.
Stay tuned.
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BBC – Facebook blocks social network profile removal service, January 5, 2010
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