{"id":166632041,"date":"2009-11-01T19:29:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/facebook-memorial"},"modified":"2009-11-01T19:29:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:29:40","slug":"facebook-memorial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/facebook-memorial-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/media_httpgravesdomattercomimageslilacgrave2smalljpg_eyqfcshhmhqucbx-scaled1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Media_httpgravesdomattercomimageslilacgrave2smalljpg_eyqfcshhmhqucbx\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/media_httpgravesdomattercomimageslilacgrave2smalljpg_eyqfcshhmhqucbx-scaled1000.jpg?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Holy Cow. \u00a0I was just thinking about this and wondering what would be done. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>A student at BYU passed away last week. \u00a0This has\u00a0unfortunately\u00a0happened twice while I have been here at school. \u00a0I saw an invite to the memorial service on facebook and I clicked on the link to the students profile. \u00a0His wall was full of thoughts from friends and family. \u00a0An impromptu memorial to his memory. \u00a0I loved the idea.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>But it got me thinking. \u00a0What will happen in the future? \u00a0How does Facebook deal with someone who has died? \u00a0Can the family ask for the profile to be taken down? or changed?<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Then I saw this post from the facebook blog. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=163091042130\">http:\/\/blog.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=163091042130<\/a><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>I think it is a sensible solution. \u00a0Have the option to turn the profile into a memorial. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>However I think there is still some discomfort here. \u00a0Will facebook in 100 years (if it is even around in 100 years) become a huge collection of digital memorials?\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>What do you think?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Cow. I was just thinking about this and wondering what would be done. A student at BYU passed away last week. This has unfortunately happened twice while I have been here at school. I saw an invite to the memorial service on facebook and I cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166632041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166632041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166632041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166632041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}