最近，国外一个名为suicidemachine的网站推出Web2.0“自杀”机器服务。它可以让你获得“重生”，从此开始你的新生活。
不用担心，其实所谓的Web2.0“自杀”机器，其实就是为你提供一个按钮，让你一键删除在MySpace, Facebook 和LinkedIn的资料和账户，“删除”你自己。最为“恐怖”的是，你可以坐在电脑面前，看着它们一点一点、一个一个得被“杀掉”。让你瞬间脱离社交网络，重获“自由身”。
If your online life is taking over your real life, it could be time to erase yourself from the internet.
如果你沉溺于网络生活，而忽略了现实世界，那你真该在互联网隐退了。
A Dutch company has made a programme which can destroy all posts and personal information from your Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter accounts.
荷兰一家公司最新研制出一款程序，可销毁用户在Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace和Twitter账户中的所有帖子和个人信息。
The advantage of the tastefully-named Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is its speed.
这款名为“Web 2.0 自杀机”的程序以速度著称。
Instead of spending nearly ten hours erasing things manually, you can go offline in just 52 minutes.
该软件可在52秒内让用户彻底“下线”，而手工清除信息耗时近10小时。
Some 3,000 people have already used the free programme, with another 90,000 on the waiting list. You hand over your passwords and watch as your Tweets and Facebook friends disappear - until there's just an empty screen.
约有3千名用户已体验了这款免费程序，另有9万名用户还处于申请阶段。用户提交密码即可看到Tweets和Facebook账户内好友消失，直至清屏。
Last month, one of the country's most eminent brain scientists warned that an obsession with social networking sites and computer games may be changing the way people’s minds work.
荷兰一位著名脑部科学家上月提醒称，沉溺于社交网站和电脑游戏可能改变人的思维方式。
Oxford University expert Susan Greenfield believes constant computer and internet use may be ‘rewiring the brain’, shortening attention spans, encouraging instant gratification and causing a loss of empathy.
牛津大学专家苏珊•格林菲尔德认为，持续使用电脑和网络会“重装大脑”、使人注意力不集中、鼓励“即时满足”、并使人丧失与他人的共鸣。
She said: ‘For me, this is almost as important as climate change.
她说：“对我来说，这和气候变化一样重要。”
‘Whilst of course it doesn’t threaten the existence of the planet like climate change, I think the quality of our existence is threatened – and the kind of people we might be in the future.’
