Great article regarding death and social networking sites (myspace)
Like many other 23-year-olds, Deborah Lee Walker loved the beach, discovering bands, making new friends and keeping up with old ones, often through the social networking site MySpace.com, where she listed her heroes as “my family, and anyone serving in the military — thank you!”
Katie Knudson, 24, killed on Feb. 23 in a shooting in Fort Myers, Fla., is memorialized on her Web page at MySpace.com. Her step-father, Bob Shorkey, monitors postings from friends and acquaintances.
So only hours after she died in an automobile accident near Valdosta, Ga., early on the morning of Feb. 27, her father, John Walker, logged onto her MySpace page with the intention of alerting her many friends to the news. To his surprise, there were already 20 to 30 comments on the page lamenting his daughter’s death. Eight weeks later, the comments are still coming. READ MORE The New York Times