Facebook Axes Suicide Machine Access

Facebook has axed users' access to Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, a service that helps users to sign out forever from other social networks. Few days ago, even Facebook got into the list of the social networks which Suicide Machine lets you unplug from. Hence, Facebook has axed Suicide Machine website's access to Facebook as measure, reported CNET. So you can get rid of the 'distracting' social networks and Facebook is no more in that list.

A Facebook representative said in a statement, "Facebook provides the ability for people who no longer want to use the site to either deactivate their account or delete it completely. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine collects login credentials and scrapes Facebook pages, which are violations of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. We've blocked the site's access to Facebook as is our policy for sites that violate our SRR. We're currently investigating and considering whether to take further action."

Suicide Machine website offers a service to users for unplugging themselves from popular social networks like Twitter, Linkedin and MySpace. Suicide Machine service uses a custom script that not only deletes the user profile from the respective social networking service but also deletes/breaks connection with every friend linked. This means the service removes all your friends from the profile and also makes it totally unusable.

Gordan Savicic, Suicide Machine's chief euthanasia officer, responded when questioned of breaching Facebook Terms:
"No, not from our point of view. We are just offering a service to users who want to drop out of Facebook. According to Facebook's terms of service, they should actually not threaten us but the people who commit suicide -- 'You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account' http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf -- And again, we are neither 'hacking' into their servers, nor scraping their pages. We only store the profile picture and the name of the user! This is actually possible without even logging into Facebook."

Suicide Machine believes everyone who uses social networks should be able to commit social network suicide and thereby offers it service.