Archive for the ‘Death + the Web’ Category
Social Networking’s Sudden Morbidity and Mortality
16, Aug 2010Twitter. And Facebook. And death. Future Tense with John Moe, American Public Media (August 16, 2010) Just recently, Twitter announced new guidelines on what it will do when a user dies. Twitter now joins the ranks of Facebook and Myspace in coming up with policies for dead members. We here at Death Ref have been [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Web|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Facebook, memorializing, twitter
1000Memories, a Thousand Possibilities
13, Aug 2010Despite the option of putting a deceased Facebook user’s account into memorial mode (and necessity, to avoid suggestions to “reconnect”), Facebook is for the living. That’s okay. Social media sites weren’t intended to handle death, and only years after their inceptions recognized the dilemma and developed related policies, as Kim’s last post explains. But now [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Web|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: memorializing, online memorials
Dead Netizen
12, Aug 2010There’s been much talk of late about what happens to your online social connections, not to mention your email and all the other ways you exist virtually, after you die. With Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others there’s you and then there’s virtual you. As more and more people join the virtual you ranks, the implementation [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + the Law|Death + the Web|Death Ethics|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Facebook, twitter
Auction House Drops Elvis Embalming Tools Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune (July 23, 2010) Elvis Embalming Tools Withdrawn By Auction House Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago I know for a fact that many people saw last week’s news item about the instruments used to embalm Elvis Presley going up for sale. I know this because many people [...]
Happy First Birthday, DeathRef!
9, Jul 2010Believe it or not, the Death Reference Desk officially launched a year ago last July (with some content seeded in June to get us started). Gadzooks! It all started when death and dying practices professor John approached librarian Meg about setting up a site where he could post death-related news links that he would otherwise [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Web
- Tags: Facebook, lecture, twitter