• USA Today, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3 PM

Don't call it a backlash, but USAToday.com has some purely anecdotal evidence to show that at least some consumers have had it with social networks. "Their reasons run the gamut from being besieged by online 'friends' who aren't really friends to lingering concerns over where their messages and photos might materialize," the publication says of those potentially pioneering souls who've consciously unplugged from the Facebook revolution.

"If there's a common theme to their exodus, it's the nagging sense that a time-sucking habit was taking the 'real' out of life." One byproduct of these digital dissenters is the rise of sites like Web 2.0 Suicide Machine and Seppukoo, which help people erase their online selves.

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