If your 2010 resolution is to spend more time with your family and closest friends, you may want to forget your virtual world friends and consider ‘digital suicide’, with help from Suicide Machine. Known as the Digitas of the virtual world, Suicide Machine allows those who are fed up of being poked, tweeted at, and linked to on their social networks to remove all trace of themselves online in just a couple of clicks. The process takes a total of 53 minutes, rather than the 9 hours it would take to do manually. The user is visually navigated through their network to view all traces of their digital self – friends, photos and messages, being erased. Watching the delete process forms the cliché of seeing your ‘digital life’ flash before your own eyes. After that, the only trace of one’s virtual existence is the testimonials on the company’s website. Facebook have banned the use of the service on their site, but Suicide Machine are exploring ways of getting around the blockers and appealing for support from fans of the service. Interestingly, one of the main reasons consumers opt for services such as this is because they grow to despise their digital self.

Thanks to Neil Bennett for this story. Neil broke his New Year’s resolution after just three days.


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