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Posted by Chelsea Bruha
Seppukoo offers a way for Facebook users to cancel their Facebook account and "commit virtual suicide. You can actually create a memorial of your Facebook account and send it a proper goodbye, if you want. Facebook lawyers are not sure how to deal with this. Will Seppukoo be the end of Facebook? What makes Seppukoo so confident that they would want to take on a huge giant social networking site like Facebook?
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I did a little more research into this, because I thought it was really interesting. According to the article I read in the LA Times, facebook has blocked this site and said that Seppukoo has violated several of the rights and responsibilities of facebook. Seppukoo responded later saying that their site is solely for artistic use.
I know that Facebook allows profile pages to be locked in a "memorial state" if a user actually dies, but a virtual suicide sounds a little unnecessary.
Oddly enough, web 2.0 suicide machine was recently blocked by Facebook. Understandably this is not something Facebook was happy about to begin with but what I find interesting is the number of people who are willing to do this and remove themselves from facebook only to go right back again.