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July 5, 2004ghosts in the machineGhosts in the Machine is an article about online identities that represent people who have died. In particular, the story follows a Friendster user whose profile represents his state of mind when he passed away. Category:
Posted by zephoria at July 5, 2004 12:33 PM
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A friend of mine died recently (and suddenly). This person's Friendster and Orkut profiles are still there; I haven't had the presence of mind or the heart to report them.
Posted by DavidM | July 5, 2004 4:21 PM
Posted on July 5, 2004 16:21
I understand the feelings-my dad is fighting cancer and it's normal to want to hold on to their memories. It's a damning existence of being human-to want to be eternally-remembered. To be forgotten is to be lost. I guess it's why we have tombstones,a last marker.
Posted by Tony | July 6, 2004 4:08 AM
Posted on July 6, 2004 04:08
A friend of mine on Livejournal died suddenly a year ago last week. His journal is still up and his last entry has hundreds of comments from us from after he died...
Another friend of mine was murdered 1 1/2 years ago and her blog is still up as well.
I don't think LJ has a policy to remove blogs for dead users.
Posted by Al | July 7, 2004 10:12 PM
Posted on July 7, 2004 22:12