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Seppukoo
Seppukoo is – no kidding – the killer app in terms of social networking. I got in love with it the very first time I heard wispers about it. Now I’m really proud to announce my brand new memorial page.
Seppukoo is a project by the imaginary art-group Les Liens invisibles (www.lesliensinvisibles.org). It helps you to suicide your virtual identity, apparently deleting your account on Facebook. While doing it, it spreads the suicide virus among your friends. In the meantime, it creates a memorial page – an account – for you on Seppukoo.com, which is nothing more than a social network of wannabe self-murderers. Yet, when you go back to Facebook, you’ll discover that your suicide was merely simbolic, because you can reactivate your Facebook account just logging in again. Through parody, parasitism and viral distribution, Seppukoo shows how difficult it is to regain control on your identity, data and information when you gifted them to a social network. Life never ends – at least, on Facebook!
