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July 16, 2011

The Internet Is Filling Up with Dead People and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It

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by Christopher Mims, Technology Review

We’re all leaving a trail of digital bread crumbs across the web, some of us more than others. On the Internet, you can’t die so much as join the ranks of the undead. Everyone who’s left has to decide whether they can live with your ghost / zombie / poltergeist popping up and re-inserting itself into your life. The alternative is a double-tap to a loved one’s leftover virtual self, a concerted effort to put one particular expression of a memory down so the rest can live in peace.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26983/?p1=blogs

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