If you’ve had enough of Social Networking and want to completely remove yourself from the various service networks what can you do? You could trawl through the various social networking sites manually removing your images, posts, walls, tweets, and such but how long is that going to take and can you be sure you’ve got everything? Will the social networking provider remove your account upon your request? Shouldn’t it be a lot easier to regain your privacy online?

A service that has become popular to social networkers and people wanting to take control of their social networking habits and personas is the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. This service aims to take the time and effort out of removing traces of your activity from a number of social networking sites including MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter and the controversial Facebook.

However, think long and hard about what you would be doing as once you start the machine – there is no backing out. Also, remember that the suicide machine will require your username and password for various social sites which may put you in breach of their terms of service.

If you can handle all that and if you are wondering how it all works watch the video below.

One of the first steps the service takes is to change your password to prevent you logging into the service, then you can watch the automated system as it works through to your last few moments of your online social life. It’s a bit bizarre these days to find anyone switching off to social networking but it can make a lot of sense under certain conditions – and why do the hard work yourself when an automated service can do it for you?

Head over to Web 2.0 Suicide to learn more.

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