Suicide is virtually painless

Suicidemachine.org offers an automated way to delete your profile from the major social networks in a bit less than an hour. The pitch: "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 alterego." The idea is...oddly beguiling, like the strange attractiveness of civilisation collapsing or the egde of the cliff. Regain hours of your week that you could spend talking to the people you really like IRL? If you're tempted, you probably should.