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web2.0 suicidemachine
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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 alter ego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website hosted by the moddr_ server – 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!
The suicide machine is, of course, a radical solution for the by now popular term “unfriending,” which became the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year 2009. There are for sure good aspects in staying connecting with friends and family living abroad using Facebook & Co., but (most) people are not fully aware of the privacy trade-offs. Those services will hold your collected information on their servers forever and use the acquired data for targeted marketing analysis. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entrapped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world.
We do have a healthy amount of paranoia to think that everyone should have the right to quit their 2.0-ified life with the help of automated machines. So we hope that by removing your contact details and friend connections your data is being cached out from their backup servers. This can happen after days, weeks, months or even years.
Links: www.suicidemachine.org
The suicide machine is, of course, a radical solution for the by now popular term “unfriending,” which became the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year 2009. There are for sure good aspects in staying connecting with friends and family living abroad using Facebook & Co., but (most) people are not fully aware of the privacy trade-offs. Those services will hold your collected information on their servers forever and use the acquired data for targeted marketing analysis. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entrapped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world.
We do have a healthy amount of paranoia to think that everyone should have the right to quit their 2.0-ified life with the help of automated machines. So we hope that by removing your contact details and friend connections your data is being cached out from their backup servers. This can happen after days, weeks, months or even years.
Links: www.suicidemachine.org
The web 2.0 suicide machine started with a club event we have been organizing where the idea was to collectively delete your social network profiles. Later on, we developed it further into a completely automated web service. The team, based in the Netherlands, consists of Danja Vasiliev (server maintenance) and Walter Langelaar (production manager). We are experimentalists and interventionists on everyday technologies. Our mission is to display a critical perspective on contemporary media through our artistic practice.