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PARIS (AFP) – Facebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity.

"Impress your friends, disconnect yourself," is the slogan on www.seppukoo.com, a site that aims to subvert Facebook by offering its millions of users a glorious end and a memorial page to match.

"Rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, ancient Japanese samurai preferred to die with honour, voluntarily plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving it left to right in a slicing motion," the site notes.

This form of ritual suicide was known as "seppuku."

"As the seppuku restores the samurai's honour as a warrior, seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body," the site says.

Today the enemy is not other bands of noble warriors but corporate media who use viral marketing to make huge profits by connecting people across the globe.

Story Link: 'Anti-social network' aims to be Facebook killer app - Yahoo! News

OOOH Jazzy - can we volunteer other people for ritual online suicide? Cyber disembowelling (on someone else) could be such fun??? I'm getting quite excited, and I haven't even had my first coffee of the day yet. What a fantastic alternative to the boring old ignore button.

We could make a thread here for Forum Gardeners who wish to implode their internet persona, self immolate, let it all hang out one last time and then dance naked and glorious into the final endless sunset - their honour restored, their digital body purified, transmogrified, luridly liberated. :sneaky:



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And then of course they could return to the fold, regurgitated, renewed, renamed... oh.. that happens already... disregard this post)

Sounds like what Darwin might have referred to as internet site selection .

I wonder if there will be that many takers. Those who are prone to the Grand Exit are also likely prone to surreptitious logging in to read what others are posting about them afterward. Narcissists aren't fond of finality.