The suicidal destruction of one's digitised alter-ego, first proposed online in a hypertext-novel by Loki93c ('Seriously Drowning' c 1997). The underlying premise being that one's alternative online avatar is a digital creation, yet the thought structure which created it is also, to an extent, digital. Genuine self-destruction, or a scripted alternative of self/character virtual destruction - cybercide - destroys the link between organic and non-organic.
Cybercide.....The remnants of the cybercidaly 'dead' digital creation - machine code - truly becomes the 'Ghost In the Machine', whilst the suicidaly dead persona, formerly on the other side of the screen, simply becomes a ghost....
The feeling you get when spam starts appearing in your in box after recently giving your email to a company or business or service, as part of contact information.
Ruth: Oh no..I am getting some wierd spam..I bet it was from giving my email to that company when I was l getting estimates for my car repair.
Wayne: You are cybernoid, and think that everytime you give your email to anyone.