Anyone using an online social network should be able to stop when it wants. In theory, this is how things should work. In practice, however, is not quite so easy. For example, kit's almost impossible to completely erase your account from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or MySpace. Some sites store user's personal data such as photos or contact information, even after deleting the account.

A site created by a couple of Dutch is precisely made for those who want to escape from the "claws" of social networking sites, through a "virtual suicide". Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is a website that helps you permanently delete accounts on social networking websites, making sure that they remove all your personal data so that it can not be stored.

The whole process happens in less than one hour, while if the user would do these operations manually, would take more than nine hours. The "suicide" is the definitive, as the account can't be accessed later.