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After-like: Facebook 'If I die' app posts your last message post mortem
Published: 15 January, 2012, 19:33
Edited: 16 January, 2012, 08:14
Most recent news: 'I'm dead!'
TAGS: Thrills&Spills, Internet, Social networks
While death bed confessions were once all the rage, a new Facebook application allows users to spill their hearts from beyond the grave. Now, when people ask ‘If I die before I wake’, the real question is: ‘What will be my last status update’?
That’s right. An Israeli company specializing in ‘time capsule’ products came up with the the free 'If I Die' application for the world’s most popular social network.
Upon confirmation of your passing from three user-appointed ‘trustees’, the app then posts a pre-death (one can only hope!) video or text message on your wall.
The makers of the app recommend sharing a personal testimony or even a deeply held secret to be shared with hundreds of your closest friends and family members.
Death has plagued facebook since its inception. It came to a head in 2009, when a new feature which suggested people with whom you might want to ‘reconnect’ had many attempting to commune with the dead.
After a series of complaints, Facebook gave users the option of memorializing accounts, whereby the dearly departed would no longer be suggested as new contacts.The memorialization feature also sought to protect the deceased by ‘removing sensitive information such as contact information and status updates’ from a user’s page, Facebook announced in a 2009 blog post.
However, the latest app takes the opposite approach, looking for the greatest post mortem impact possible.
The app already has 5,000 'likes' on Facebook. Let’s just hope your passing isn’t nearly as popular.
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Well, I use vkontakte (russian version of facebook, I deleted facebook because random people kept adding me and I kept receiving these horribly stupid status updates which made me facepalm all the time), anyways, I only have all my real friends and colleagues there, around 35 in total I think, and there is two main reasons why sometimes you would have to use this social site.
1. When they live in a different country, city, moved, or I am away.
2. When they are online colleagues such as (digital) producers/DJs, we share music and ideas through this site and we can also collaborate. You can share tutorial videos and other useful stuff there as Vkontakte is a hub of usefull videos and music (I belive it is now the largest) which you can download by the way with an addon for firefox but if you have money why not support the artist/credit.
One would think that your "friends" have other access to last messages and confession than having to read them on facebook, like, well... let's say other friends, family, last wills and so on. Personal stuff, you know.
Also I think it's a huge rip-off since it will definitely not be for
free. Spend all the paysafecards you want on games, but that's a service
that's not only pointing people towards the wrong (unpersonal)
direction it's also really useless.
I think it's sad that something like facebook nowadays makes up such an important part of our lives while more and more people are sitting at home feeling lonely and unloved and thus are using ways like facebook to make people see what's going on, how they feel or just trying to get some attention by "likes". My suggestion: If you see someone posting all the time, especially those "give me a like" postings, call him or her, meet up and show him or her you actually care about them, then maybe they won't even need this app after they die cause you'll have been able to say important things to each other while you were alive...
Jews, organ trafficking, facebook, privacy... not a good combination