Kim, the 25 years of Valentine's Day roses would be kind of awkward if the woman remarried.
In fact, talk about measuring up--you'd always have to outdo husband number one on Valentine's Day. And, you'd never know if he had an extra surprise the following year.
I have a friend who died suddenly about a year ago and his LinkedIn profile is still up. That's a bit of a different issue, but his family may not even know he had a LinkedIn Profile.
I have a Classmates.com profile, for instance, that I never check and the last thing on my mind in cleaning up my life before death would be to get rid of that. I think there are remnants of all of us out there.
I first thouhgt it worked similar to HootSuite that people would write messages and after confirmation of death (don't know how!), it will publish the messages.
"Hi, it's colder than I thought... the people are friendly, haven't found mom yet"
I agree, I think someone would have to be really full of themselves to want to continue tweeting beyond the grave. Personnally, I think I would not read them if it were a friend of mine. I can't imagine the site becoming very popular, or lasting very long. I am sure the people who will sign up for it will be the same people who are having their bodies frozen when they die in hope of being regenerated someday.....;)
I agree with you. I don't know if there really is a "normal" when it comes to social media. I think it was sweet, and kind of funny that my friend had her daughter update her status when she passed...but 20 years of status updates would just be creepy. My cousin's sister decided to use her facebook page for games after my cousin passed away, which I guess is OK; except when she started clicking "like" on different pages. It was really creepy when I sae in my newsfeed that my cousin liked Oreo cookies six months after she was gone. I don't think I would like the "live on" social network much.
My preference would be for a site like Facebook to have a policy that accounts of deceased members should be closed, together with the practice of sending the data (photos/messages) to an identified next-of-kin for them to host somewhere if they want to.
Nerd..lol, well i hope we see something of that kind from facebook. Because it is a bit disturbing to see accounts of people that passed on still existing as normal accounts for any reason.
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