Facebook has threatened one of the best ideas online with its legal hounds unless it closes shop. SuicideMachine.com allows people to kill their social profiles on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn with the push of a button instead of hunting through all these sites to do so manually.

Social networks are powerful tools for communications and sharing, and pretty much everyone on the Committee uses one or more of them regularly. I’ve got profiles on 12 or more. Four I actually look at regularly. But it’s easy to see how the habit can get out of control, and the ability to opt out should always be in plain sight, but unfortunately it’s usually buried somewhere under a mound of setting options. Suicidemachine.org’s aim is to bring the option back to the forefront.

I attempted to kill my long dorment Myspace page as the site has grown disgustingly bad and I haven’t looked at it in about a year now. As of this writing, a message pops up saying the service is down due to too many service requests, but one wonders whether it has anything to do with the Cease & Desist order sent by Facebook legal bullies. Read the rest of this entry…