Blogs must be like buses – wait for ages then two come at once. A BBC report publicises the Suicide Machine – a service to help people disconnect from social networks. Founder Gordan Savicic says he’s had 90,000 requests and rising from individuals keen to opt out of the Internet and experience the real world instead. It had to happen. Our digital lifestyles have taken on a life of their own. Self-deletion is no longer an option. Who you gonna call? DataBusters! I’m not entirely comfortable with the suicide analogy, and a visit to the website doesn’t make it seem anymore appropriate. But maybe even the human experience of bereavement is reduced through digitisation. Like Kindle takes away the human element of book reading while still offering the same end result. The report includes a link to Daniel Sieberg’s Declaration of Disconnection in the Huffington Post where he refers to himself as a recovering social network addict. Suicide AND Addiction? Scratching on the surface of the reality of the dark side of the Internet. When did you last experience digital disconnection and how was it for you?
Suicide Machine
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