Although I feel extremely reluctant to comment on this, having seen
several announcements all day, it's bothering me now enough that I
feel I need to say something, somewhere, somehow.
First of all, I appreciate the idea of both the "suicide machine" and
"seppukoo", and I think it is important to question and critique
contacts mediated through so-called Web 2.0 sites, but I'm not sure
this is the best way to do it.
For one thing, I find the timing extremely bad. On the one hand, there
is generally a rise in real-life (or should I say real-death) suicides
during holiday seasons, and at a time when it is conventional for
family and friends to gather, the loss of a loved person is felt even
more keenly. To me, a project like this feels as though it is almost
making a joke out of that, and personally, I feel extremely sensitive
about suicide jokes.
In addition, as relationships and modes of communication are changing,
social networking sites are actually used to communicate intentions of
suicide - not just symbolic suicide. That's hard enough to deal with
without a project like this.
I think it is extremely important for art to address taboos, and
death in general and suicide in particular are certainly very
difficult and complex taboos. My personal feeling is that this is just
not a good way to do that.
It may well be that my personal experience in this context is not
really relevant, but since I have such a problem with this project -
even though I understand it intellectually - I needed to say
something.
All the best,
Aileen
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote:
this is wonderful!
i only don't like the "moral" approach of the demo video, but it's a wonderful
project and application.
by the way, do you know this one?
http://www.seppukoo.com/
a different approach. they're having quite a hard time with facebook banning
them after about 300000 sucides and a whole
community is rising up trying to design support strategies.
ciao!
xDxD
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:49 AM, danja vasiliev <[email protected]> wrote:
Tired of your Social Network?
Liberate yourself and your 'friends' with a web2.0 suicide!
The Web2.0 Suicide Machine lets you effectively delete all your energy
sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and
completely do away with your web2.0 alterego. The machine is developed in
the moddr_lab at WORM (Rotterdam), and serves as a metaphor for the
http://suicidemachine.org website which moddr_ hosts; the belly of the
beast where the web2.0 suicide-scripts are maintained...
Our services currently run with Facebook.com, Myspace.com and
LinkedIn.com;
simply enter your username and password for the required service, and our
machine will systematically login to your account, change your profile
picture, and then one by one delete all of your friends.
For more specific information on the Web2.0 Suicide Machine please have a
look at the videotour and FAQ on http://suicidemachine.org
'unfriending' has never been this easy,
Commit NOW!
http://suicidemachine.org
http://wormweb.nl
http://moddr.net
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