A DARK-humoured new website offers despairing Facebook users a way out of the social network with a ritual suicide for their virtual identities.Since I'm not on Facebook and have no desire to be I'll be keeping my identity.
"Impress your friends, disconnect yourself," is the slogan on www.seppukoo.com, a site that aims to subvert Facebook by offering its millions of users a glorious end and a memorial page to match.
"Rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, ancient Japanese samurai preferred to die with honour, voluntarily plunging a sword into the abdomen," the website says. This form of ritual suicide was known as "seppuku."
What I'm also interested in is cell phone seppuku, for all those people who cannot carry on a brief conversation without pecking away on their phone, as well as the morons who continue to yak it up while driving.
Willing victims can commit "Facebook seppuku" in five steps - first they log into the website using their Facebook details.
They then choose a memorial RIP page templates before writing their last words, which the site promises to send to all their Facebook friends when they have taken the final step.
Once the user has made that fatal final click, his or her Facebook profile is deactivated.
But in what might be seen as a bit of a cheat, virtual life goes on after the ritual suicide.
Friends can write testimonials on the memorial page or help the user rise to the tops of Seppukoo's ranks by also committing virtual hara kiri.
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