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...friends as publicity vehicles. Many employers appear to even encourage this type of behavior; more than a few jobs that I looked at for this summer indicated that familiarity with use of social networks was a plus. However, when there are already specifically business-oriented networking sites like LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Xing, the mixing of business and personal relationships on Facebook is entirely unnecessary and detrimental to the site’s purpose...
...sign up for a new social-networking service, you make decisions about, literally, who you want to be. You package yourself - choose an avatar, pick a name, state your status - not unlike a storyteller creating a character or a publicist positioning a client. You can be professional on LinkedIn, flippant on Facebook and epigrammatic on Twitter. What's more, each of these representations can be very different and yet entirely authentic. Like a reality producer in a video bay, you edit yourself to fit the context...
...what exactly does that mean? And why is Buzz any different from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and LinkedIn? And doesn’t the name Buzz evoke images of annoying mosquitoes? These were the initial questions that ran through our heads as we got used to Buzz in Gmail’s interface...
Once you hand over your log-in details and click Commit, the program will methodically delete your info - Twitter tweets, MySpace contacts, Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections - much like users could do manually. What remains is a brittle cyberskeleton: a profile with no data. Users seem to love it. Testimonials range from joyous farewells ("Goodbye, cruel world!") to good-riddance denouements ("Thank you, microblogging. You are, in fact, totally useless"). Suicide Machine is so popular that thousands of people are waiting their turn for their own cyberoffing. "Our server is so busy handling the requests," says Suicide Machine co-creator Walter...
...Machine from accessing its site earlier this month, Suicide Machine's creators, and the suicides, are continuing. "Compared to the more than 350 million users [on Facebook], we think deleting a few hundred is not very impressive," says Langelaar. "But they picked up on it as a potential threat." LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter have not yet publicly responded. (See a story on Foursquare's social-networking twist...