Social Suicide

Wanna pull the plug on your alter ego? "Improve your relationship, get rid of Stalkers!" Check this out: something I've not seen that passed my desk today "Web 2.0 Suicide machine" advertises itself thus: "Make the switch to a web 2.0 free life" "Stop Self-Procrastination!" "So many people you don't care about" "Unfriending has never been so easy"

Blessings and love to all my social network buddies, never fear, I'm not planning on committing social suicide till I'm married, settled and sick of it all, but that doesn't mean I don't think about it sometimes.

This website allows you to delete your myspace/facebook/twitters/blogs etc. at the click of a button and I for one definitely need something like this to bury my past, but on the other hand, I cherish the various stuff I've put up on the web over the years, it's my journey, and I'm kind of tickled by the idea that my alter ego which lives primarily in my imagination and on the web is sort of disposably immortal, in fact, it always makes me wonder what happens to deceased people's facebooks.

Do they live on for posterity? Is there an afterlife facebook? A graveyard for people's online profiles? Come to that, if there isn't one, why the hell not?

Did you ever see that film "Things to do in Denver when you're Dead"?I love Andy Garcia in that film, I remember learning that he proposed to his wife on the day he met her (in real life) after watching that film. Respect Andy. Anyway, he makes his money in the film by shooting videos of old people, leaving messages for their loved ones for after they die.

Hmm... that gives me a business idea... ... ah fuck it. I'd rather not get involved in another hair-brained web-video scheme! I think I'll leave that to the business masters of the world.

Anyway, web suicide, DO IT!!