So this may seem a bit morbid, but I was thinking about this today and I was wondering what others thought:
Internet communities have now been around long enough that certain members, active members, may well die.
I was browsing the list of sifters and noticed many sifters are simply absent and I thought, "maybe they are dead," and there would be no way of knowing if this person had really died or not. It is strange that you can have so many lengthy exchanges with an individual and, in the end, not even know if they have shed the mortal coil.
A deceased friend of mine has a ghost myspace account, obviously no one can erase it so it remains as an eerie tombstone and the same would be for the Sift. Perhaps we keep voting for their videos, and leaving private comment no one will read.
I don't have a real "question" here, but I was more curious on your thoughts...
Internet communities have now been around long enough that certain members, active members, may well die.
I was browsing the list of sifters and noticed many sifters are simply absent and I thought, "maybe they are dead," and there would be no way of knowing if this person had really died or not. It is strange that you can have so many lengthy exchanges with an individual and, in the end, not even know if they have shed the mortal coil.
A deceased friend of mine has a ghost myspace account, obviously no one can erase it so it remains as an eerie tombstone and the same would be for the Sift. Perhaps we keep voting for their videos, and leaving private comment no one will read.
I don't have a real "question" here, but I was more curious on your thoughts...
and btw i think i have cancer. seriously.
and btw i think i have cancer. seriously.
Sigh. How do you follow that? Let's hope not, NinjaFish. Jesus, man. I had a whole death joke thing worked out with KP being the butt of it, but nooooo! You had to bring reality into the mix. Fuck balls. Well, I personally hope you are healthy, otherwise the comedy of cancer jokes will be seriously depleted from the Sift.
but anyways lets skip the cancer subject and focus our attention on people dying eh? or perhaps they are one in the same? :-P a bit of a side note.. comedy is like sugar; it makes everything better unless you want to focus on things that are bitter. If that is the case then grab the salt of sarcasm and irony, just dont over-do it.
And Ninjafish, go to the doctor and find out. You know, the stress of not knowing and worrying can make you sick. And we probably all think we have cancer at one time or another, anyway.
If I die, I'll send a messenger back to piss everyone off-If you kill me, well, that's another thing altogether-for that we send minions...
- so sorry choggie
but, what about starting a business venture for afterlife revenge?
You pay us and we'll disturb whoever you disliked during your terrestrial existence
(or just a final poke in he eye for your ungrateful son /daughter)
(record your voice for unrestrained afterlife fun! see your loved ones scream as you tell them off one last time)
anwho - there was an article about the Myspace pages of deceased soldiers and Marines - and how MySpace won't take it down at the family's request and how friends use it as a sort of memorial by posting comments and such.
Many of us are connected by gtalk and the like. More of us should connect...especially if you're really invested here. People would want to know.
I think one of my kids would eventually fight over my computer and see one of you guys on gtalk and tell him.
So funny, they really would fight over the laptop. Brats
I don't post my real name on the internet. I even use various user names so that I don't leave a trail back to me with all the stupid things I've said.
And yes, as the internet generation grows older this will be more and more commonplace. We just have to find a way to deal with it.
http://www.mydeathspace.com/
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2616639962_bf97732067.jpg?v=0
If I die, I'll send a messenger back to piss everyone off-If you kill me, well, that's another thing altogether-for that we send minions...
Choggie would become the Crow. But, not the cool guitar playing goth-esque Brandon Lee kind. No. He'd just be a crow on your window sill annoyingly cawing and waking you up and dropping aerial turds on your newly washed car.
"Thank you for calling but, I've passed on! I am no more! I have ceased to be! I've expired and gone to meet my maker! I'm a stiff! Bereft of life, I
rest in peace! I'm pushing up the daisies! My metabolic processes are now history! I'm off the twig! I've kicked the bucket, I've shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible!! I AM AN EX-PARROT... I mean, I AM AN EX-HUMAN!!"