Want to commit Facebook suicide? No, really, there's an app for that!

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I just stumbled across an article on FastCompany and it sheds light on something I've never put much thought into: unfriending. Sure, it entered the English language this year, but we don't really do it all that often, do we? We might talk about doing it, but rarely do we go through with it. It would be a bit like committing social suicide.

Ah, suicide. A contentious topic. But let's face it: shit happens. Sometimes it all just gets a bit too much. You're being poked on all fronts by parents, coworkers and your local parish priest -- there's no way out. Drunken, debauched photos of you are being ruthlessly tagged. You can't stop hitting F5 in case the boy you like updates his status -- I must be first to 'like' his status!!! It all mixes and congeals into something truly monstrous -- and addictive.

Let's face it, social networking, in its current, vacuous, self-adulatory and time-wasting form is a bit sad. Wouldn't it be nice to just... get away? For ever? PERMANENTLY?

Well I bring good news, there's an app for that: The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine.

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