Thinking about ending all those social network hang-ups?

Tired of the unending need to tweet, make more connections and friend or be friended by everyone you've ever met? A new service called Web 2.0 Suicide Machine could stop it all for you.

By the end of 2009, you could be forgiven for thinking that some — especially in the media — now rank social networking as a technological advancement as indispensable as the telephone, or perhaps even the wheel. And as we've mentioned on this blog before there is no shortage of people who are sick of hearing about it. Many of them have even made use of the handy comment boxes below to tell us all about it too.

One thing that keeps cropping up in plenty of these comments are the words 'deleted' and 'account'. Could 2010 be the year that we decide to start clearing the online decks a bit? Web 2.0 Suicide Machine would hope so — they're offering to scrape your entire social footprint off the web. That means everything; every tweet, wall post, comment, photo, and whatever else you can think of from a variety of services, including Twitter and MySpace, and it won't cost you a thing either. All you have to do is hand over your account information and they do the rest.

Here's the catch though, Facebook is not on board. Although Web 2.0 Suicide Machine currently lists the network as one of the services it can remove all traces of you from, the company itself is blocking its IP address, according to The Wall Street Journal, in an effort to defer Facebook suicide by anyone other than the individual user themselves.

A Facebook spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that the technique used by Web 2.0 Suicide Machine to delete accounts violates its terms of use policy.

"Web 2.0 Suicide Machine collects login credentials and scrapes Facebook pages, which are violations of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities," said the spokesperson in a statement, who went on to confirm that the company had deliberately blocked Web 2.0's access to the site and that it was considering further investigation into the matter.

"Facebook provides the ability for people who no longer want to use the site to either deactivate their account or delete it completely."

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine posted its own statement describing the restriction as "ungrounded".

"After more than 50, 000 friends being unfriended and more than 500 forever "signed-out" users, Facebook started to block our suicidemachine from their servers without any comment...We are currently looking in ways to circumvent this"