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Archive | February, 2009

Facebook death so common that we now joke about it

It seems like the issue of digital death has reached mainstream, evidenced by The Onion now commenting on it. http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/facebook_friend_apparently “Boy. That’s a shame. Just goes to show you that you really have to enjoy every SuperPoke like it’s your last.” Thanks to Sharkey for the link.

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Digital hit man. Digital cleaner.

In this post, Steven Keith, a strategist at Capstrat, has provided me with the next real world need in search of an online equivalent. I recently watched the director’s cut of Bladerunner. His job is to kill the aging androids. I thought a job of the future would be to kill someone’s digital past- for […]

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Digital Suicide

A friend emailed this today. Written by chromepoet. Very soon, we will read about people who toss it all by posting a list of their usernames/passwords, shutting down their computers and walking off the grid, never to be heard of again. It will be the equivalent of a digital suicide. And would make a great […]

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