{"id":621475,"date":"2010-01-05T18:49:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100104\/1657097603.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-05T18:49:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:49:46","slug":"facebook-continues-blocking-apps-that-help-you-delete-your-facebook-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/621475","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Continues Blocking Apps That Help You Delete Your Facebook Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is apparently really against against the idea of virtual euthanasia.  Last week, we wrote about how it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091229\/1725507541.shtml\">blocking Seppukoo<\/a>, a silly app that would let you kill your Facebook account.  This week after people started talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/31\/web-2-0-suicide\/\" >a similar service called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine<\/a> (which is similar, if a bit more inclusive &#8212; it will delete all your web 2.0 profiles &#8212; and entertaining &#8212; you get to watch the deletions in realtime), Facebook again <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-19882_3-10424683-250.html?part=rss&#038;subj=news&#038;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\" >rushed forward to block access<\/a>.  Apparently Facebook has no sense of humor at all when it comes to you actually leaving its service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100104\/1657097603.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100104\/1657097603.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100104\/1657097603&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=2d9c893ed6e695522977454d05631564&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=2d9c893ed6e695522977454d05631564&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=6Md8ZMFG6Xw:ywNuWh1BRE8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=6Md8ZMFG6Xw:ywNuWh1BRE8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=6Md8ZMFG6Xw:ywNuWh1BRE8:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/6Md8ZMFG6Xw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is apparently really against against the idea of virtual euthanasia. Last week, we wrote about how it was blocking Seppukoo, a silly app that would let you kill your Facebook account. This week after people started talking about a similar service called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (which is similar, if a bit more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BFN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}