I know of at least one, and it's annoying when Facebook does that 'hey, you haven't talked to this person in a while, write them a message' thing. There needs to be a way for the deceased to have accounts either deactivated or taken out of regular circulation.
The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook?
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Re: The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, populations are typically modeled as a sigmoid function, they only appear to be growing exponentially. I think it's fair to assume total population will stabilise whilst we are still resource limited to Earth.
It seems that we are at the inflection point of the sigmoid: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/World-Pop...
The last estimate I seem to find on the subject said that the population should level off at 10 billion in 2200. Granted, this is from 1999: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/six...
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#33Reminded me of this XKCD http://xkcd.com/686/ Which just made me sad.
It reminded me of this Dinosaur Comic http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1490
Which cheered me up. Perhaps you're not really gone if you find a way to convince people that you are still alive?
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#34Reminded me of this XKCD http://xkcd.com/686/ Which just made me sad.
A friend of mine died (young -- early 30s) this year. For a while, until his computers were taken care of, he was still "online" through various IM services, which was creepy.
A certain IRC network has also, apparently, made an exception to its policy on expiring registered nicks -- nine months later, his is still registered and protected. Which is a nice gesture.
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#35Do they really have to be called 'ghosts'?
Yes, sorry.
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#36The guys at www.entrustet.com have been talking about this for the last 6 months. Some of 1000 memories points are straight up lifted. Have some integrity guys. The interwebs know when you copy. Stats are free, but you should at least credit them for inspiration.
Isn't the moral of Hacker News that the ideas don't matter that much, only the execution?
Re: The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook?
#37The guys at www.entrustet.com have been talking about this for the last 6 months. Some of 1000 memories points are straight up lifted. Have some integrity guys. The interwebs know when you copy. Stats are free, but you should at least credit them for inspiration.
Isn't the moral of Hacker News that the ideas don't matter that much, only the execution?
Taking someones idea for a business and plagiarism are very different things