Myspace deaths, but the profiles live on.

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I've read about this elsewhere on the web, but can't find a thread here about it.

Basically, when people die in real life their profiles on sites such as myspace, and indeed their posts on ILX, live on.

Here are a few links worth reading:
http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2005/12/14/myspace-deaths/
http://shutyourspace.blogspot.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/myspace_deaths/
http://www.myspace.com/myspace_deaths

I don't really have much to say about it yet, but I'm deeply struck by the idea. I think particularly because most of the profiles I've seen have been for late teenage & early 20s people killed in accidents or murders, they really weren't expecting to die.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

someone I knew who died last year had a friendster profile which is still up, I believe. if no-one has the password there's really no way to take it down. sad reminder.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I was looking at the myspace deaths one the other day. pretty gruesome.

Last night I wrapped up the last of writing far-flung friends of my grandmother's to tell them she had passed. some of these people we had no idea who they were but she had fairly recent correspondnce from them so figured they should know. I can only imagine how difficult this would be for realtives of digital types like us.

I must tell someone in my family where Ilx is in case I die! ;)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I often wonder if I should have all my passwords in my will or something.

― ratty, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Some folks' Livejournals turn into their memorials

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hoo boy. Wonderful skull-n-crossbones logos on the myspace page.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to remember a very good thread about this kind of thing started by Ned about 18 months ago?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

[url]http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=8182[/url]

― Floyd the Barber (Floyd), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

(I read that first link and realized I knew who the blogger was from usenet interactions many many years ago. That also seems strange.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

BIG NEWS: The last gasp of Myspace - Myspace.com will cease operations come June 30th. @CFOJournal will be reporting. #DCSM #SM

RIP

― James Mitchell, Friday, 24 June 2011 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

Haha this is definitely the better thread to revive.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 June 2011 16:37 (fourteen years ago)

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