PSFK tipped me off to Seppukoo.com, a social experiment of sorts where you gain points for disabling your facebook account (committing “virtual suicide”) and then encouraging your friends to do the same. I love the idea and I think it speaks to a lot of the issues and anxieties that people today have with social media.
Facebook, Twitter, et al are now such an integral part of our lives that we sometimes forget what life was like before their existence. We forget how productive we can be without these distractions. Most importantly, we seek true connection and friendship even though we are paradoxically surrounded by virtual friends all day long. Seppukoo.com calls itself a “liberation of the digital body from any identity constriction” so users can “rediscover the importance” of being themselves. Perhaps most telling, Seppukoo.com does not permanently delete your Facebook account. This begs the question: Once you’ve joined Facebook, or Twitter, or any number of similar sites, can you ever actually stop using them?
