Can't stand your online life anymore?

Now you can end it all!

Just think . . . no more tweets; no more worrying if your mother is facebook stalking you; no more friend requests from you childhood bully; no more worrying if your farm is thriving!

The website is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it does have a serious idea behind the fun. More and more people are spending their time online instead of in the company of people. It is all part of the phenomenon where people are connecting to more people, but are having fewer face-to-face experiences. Texting instead of calling, calling instead of talking face to face, tweeting instead of sending post cards.

And no, the irony of where I am typing this is not lost on me

The internet was way more interesting in the 90s, I think I'm about ready to go.

How much virtual gold does this service cost?

I think it's free.

what? I can get back to real life and it doesn't cost me a thing?


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What's the catch?

You're right, and I am one of those people. I live in a town where the night life is either a dive bar or nothing.

But there is something addictive to the online/disconnected connection life. And like any addiction, it is a danger to that person's health/well-being. So, something like this might be a way for a person to start to help themselves, by removing some of the ability to access the online life they have built for themselves.

I posted this half-serious, half-in fun. I find the idea of the site amusing, but it does address a phenomenon that is becoming more and more of a norm.

I'm anxiously waiting the first time that an angry friend/family member/significant other scores a person's login credentials and suicides them. If it hasn't already happened.

I think that would be considered murder then.

I agree, it's not necessarily one or the other. In fact, online interactions can lead to real life interactions, as many people on this site can attest.

If I get to see the first court case stemming from this, I will die a happy man.

I think FB disabled or did away with this feature, and the thing that gets me is seeing "tweens" and other young girls tweeting, or commenting to each other as they are actually together.

"OMG! I just left you a comment about your update" "you're my Best friend in real life too"

Couldn't you just go to your accounts yourself and delete your account? That seems a lot simpler than having them "change your picture and password." Are we so lazy that we have to have other people delete our social networking accounts for us when we grow tired of them?

Reminds me of that WS tune...

Well you're in your little room
And you're working on something good
But if it's really good
You're gonna need a bigger room
And when you're in the bigger room
You might not know what to do
You might have to think of
How you got started in your little room

Da da da