Social Networking, or Social Suicide?

Facebook. Twitter. MySpace. LinkedIn. Friendster. You must have heard of at least one of these websites, if not already having an account. With the plethora of such social networking sites being introduced on the internet, does building your social identity mean that you should have an account with EVERY website, or is that just social suicide? Well for some, it's just suicide. Literally.

In February 2009, a 30 year old aspiring model committed suicide, not before updating his Facebook status with his intended actions. His final status read, "born in San Francisco, became a shooting star over everywhere, and ended his life in Brooklyn. ... And couldn't have asked for more."

While a few of us may remember reading similar stories like these from around the world, there is one way you can commit suicide. Virtually.

Introducing the Web 2.0 suicide machine. This website allows you "kill" your online identity. It does so by deleting all your friends, followers, affiliations, pictures, video, tags, tweets, and any form of your online fingerprint before changing the password and closing the account. Yes, you can just close your account, but people can still see your "past life". Yes, you can delete/unfriend everything/everyone manually, but the beauty of this website is that it does all of that for you, automatically.

Not convinced? If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this video must have enough words for your online identity's eulogy. Commit now!