How it works[edit]
Rather than deleting user accounts, it removes private content and friendships. To start the suicide process, the user has to provide their login credential for the social network from which they want to be deleted, and then "watch your life passing by and reflect upon your real & virtual friends", while private content and friend relationships are removed. In the end the user is included in a memorial album of all the suicides, with their profile picture, their name and their "last words".[1]
"Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" has listed the functions of which the service is capable thus far as the following:[1]
The Facebook option is no longer available on Web 2.0 Suicide Machine as Facebook sent a cease and desist (C&D) letter on January 6, 2010, demanding that suicidemachine.org stop their actions.[6]
Controversy[edit]
In January 2010, Facebook managed to block the service for a short time[3] and sent a cease and desist letter from its lawyers.[2] The service remained up and running, but the website has since ceased operation. Its creators "consider this project as a piece of socio-political net art".[2]