The idea of the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” is to abandon your virtual life — so you can get your actual life back, Gordan Savicic tells NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly. Savicic is the CEO — which he says stands for “chief euthanasia officer” — of SuicideMachine.org.
The site is the work of group of artists, designers and programmers based in the Netherlands who wanted to create a way to let people destroy their social networking accounts…
Once you’ve decided to go through with it, all you need to do is give the Suicide Machine some information and hit a little button that reads “commit.” Then you can sit back and watch as your virtual life flashes before your eyes.
Bye-bye, former friends and followers. So long, profile pictures and passwords. Hello, real life 2.0.
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