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Title: Social networking site for the dead
Post by: allanq on December 13, 2009, 12:02:37 pm
This is a very interesting article from the NY Times about "a social networking site for the dead."

In the words of the article's author, it is a site designed

to reclaim the memories of thousands who died during a calamitous era, when H.I.V. was still a death sentence. It connects the dead to one another, to a larger community and to groups of potential new “friends” using technology that most of those it commemorates did not live to experience.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/fashion/13memorial.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1

The only thing that I found a little weird about this article is that it appears in in the "Fashion and Style" section of the newspaper.

Title: Re: Social networking site for the dead
Post by: Miss Philicia on December 13, 2009, 01:01:40 pm
Thanks for providing that link to that really interesting article, Allan.  What a marvelous idea.  As this somewhat focuses on the Gay History Wiki and its focus on the Philadelphia area I will have to forward this to members of my local support group as I didn't live here at that time.

I don't care how many times I read something, but the lead in part about the 46 year old that passed away in 1993 could have been me (just a couple years older, same year I was diagnosed with AIDS etc) and like so many here it always reminds me of how lucky I am.
Title: Re: Social networking site for the dead
Post by: Theyer on January 11, 2010, 05:14:37 pm
This idea interrests and excites me. For a number off reasons my late partners death  has been even more present than usual in present life and one off the things he used to say when watching T.V./film credits was "I wonder how many are now dead"
This grew out off watching the credits to spot friends as he was a graduate off Cal Arts , and by 86 onwards tragic news was coming to him in London.
I find myself doing it to all 80,s work, wondering what story the credits tell.
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