Death: when the life behind shared social streams ended

The Internet is changing not only our life.
It is also changing what is left after we are gone.
Social life streams stop when the life behind ended.
But those streams of activity continue to be accessible until the service provider will delete the account or close doors.

We dont know Carl Backstrom, but we can access his feeds:

Carl shared last time on 24th October 2008 a bookmark on delicious.

Source:http://delicious.com/carlback/?page=1

He listened last time on 24th October 2008 to a song on last.fm.

Source: http://www.last.fm/user/carlback

Carl published last time a photo from a cellphone to his flickr photostream at 25th October 2008, 8:20pm.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlback/2973612702/

On 26th October 2008, 2:53am Carl died in a car accident.

Until today you can access Carl’s activity feeds via FriendFeed.

Social networks are a new phenomenon, and the Internet itself is immature:

Is the accessibility of those streams after death a good or bad thing?
Is it good or bad when those accounts would be deleted (on request or because of inactivity)?
Should we maybe have not even published this post?

Carl lived, he died, he has family, friends and colleagues that are expressing on the Web their feelings after Carl’s death.
His death is a tragedy.
The details of Carl Backstrom’s life stream activities that he shared during his life and that we accessed months after his death touched our hearts.
You can find here details to donate to Carl’s memorial fund.
Our condolences to Carl’s friends and family.

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Mai 14th, 2009 at 9:57 pm and is filed under Thematic Web Archives. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.