Thursday, September 16, 2010

Social Media Suicide

Some stories have been running about this site: Web 2.0 Suicide Machine which you give your social site creditentials to and it basically logs in and removes all your content, unlinks all your follows, etc.

Interesting spin is that once you do this, you can't get back in as they change your password and don't give it back (although I guess you could go thru a password recovery via email?)

I have to ask myself, is deleting your online stuff even possible? Google caches stuff. There's the wayback-machine. It would be like trying to unpost a usnet post (for those of you old enough to remember what nntp even stood for).

Hmm... Not quite ready to pull the trigger yet. But something to think about...

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