Archive for the ‘Death + the Web’ Category
Live and Let Social Media Die
8, May 2012Government Advises Americans to Create ‘Social Media Will’ to Handle Facebook, Twitter, Email Accounts After Death Meena Hart Duerson, New York Daily News (May 7, 2012) If you haven’t thought about what will happen to your Facebook account when you die, the government suggests you get started. Creating a “social media will” is now one [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Law|Death + the Web
- Tags: digital assets, Facebook
Facebook likes Organ Donation
2, May 2012.
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Death + Technology|Death + the Web
- Tags: bioethics, Facebook
On the Media: Updating Your Social Media After You Die WNYC Public Radio (March 23, 2012) With social media, so much of our interactions with the world now live online, even after we may not be living at all. Brooke talks to James Norris, the founder of the website Deadsocial about prolonging social media relationships [...]
The Facebook Show On The Media, WNYC Public Radio (February 03, 2012) An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a “Like.” Living Online After Death Faces Nebraska Legal Battle BBC News (January 31, 2012) WNYC’s On the [...]
For all our morbid bent and grave humor, plenty warms our hearts at the Death Reference Desk. Personally I (Meg) am a stickler for serendipity and random acts of stranger kindness, especially when it involves the internet and otherwise impossible interactions. This week the cardiac warm fuzzies involve… hey! us! all starting with a post [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Web
- Tags: grave markers