Has the thought ever crossed your mind? Have you ever sat there and looked at the outstanding ‘pokes’, ‘tweets’ and Linked In updates; only to sigh at the length of time it will take you go through all of them? So, have you ever (whisper it) considered web 2.0 suicide?

It might be something that at some point many of us Facebook, Twitter et al. addicts have thought about. However the admin time to commit virtual suicide may have put some people off. Now there is a website that offers to do just that for you, and claims to give you your real life back in the process. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine will take your login details for your social network accounts, and will systematically un-friend your friends, un-tweet your tweets, and un-link with your Linked In colleagues. It claims that it can do all this in just under an hour, whereas to do this all manually will cost you around 10 hours! That’s a lot of social networking time.

Compare that with the statistic out last year that users spend 17% of their online time on social networks (mainly Facebook and Twitter), and it may end up making economic sense to cease mixing on the social web.

There are other benefits to stopping operating on these sites. As technology journalists Leo Laporte and Jason Calacanis both decided publicly to commit Facebook suicide earlier this year in protests to the sites use of its user’s privacy rights and personal information. Their protest was symbolic of their support for more open platform social networks such as Diaspora. However, other Facebook users may not wish to make such a grandiose gesture, and may simply feel that the site is beginning to take up too much of their spare time.

Whatever the reason for wanting to commit virtual suicide maybe, it is handy to know that there is a website that can do all this necessary admin for you. Want to commit Facebook suicide? There’s a web app for that!

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