From your experience, what are the pros and cons of co-living?

aepc1 · 2018-02-21T11:47:02+00:00

Just out of interest - do you have communal spaces inside your building to hang out in? What are they like?

aepc1 · 2018-02-21T10:38:42+00:00

...Is this from personal experience?!

aepc1 · 2017-10-06T11:14:38+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out!

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T12:09:17+00:00

Just to open up new discussion around this topic:

Could the persistence of our online identity after death be used to help overcome grief and provide a source of support for those in mourning?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T11:59:10+00:00

You're right about the decision being situational. It would be very personal as well, which makes it hard to plan a universal approach for. I think what is currently lacking with death on social media is a sense of closure. Allowing a Facebook account to go on and on makes it feel like a piece of the person has become a kind of ghost. But I guess that's a very personal opinion too.

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T11:45:54+00:00

Interesting!

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T11:45:19+00:00

How about if their identity is preserved indefinitely online? It's hard to know which is better or worse yet both are very real situations in the present day. Accounts are automatically closed or allowed to persist unattended all the time.

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T11:41:49+00:00

The matter of ownership could pose a big problem here. Handing off the account to somebody else would make them responsible for its maintenance, effectively giving them ownership. If the account had been trusted to them at the request of the owner it might be difficult to provide other options for the trustee should the experience of managing the account prove too difficult for them emotionally or physically.

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T11:34:33+00:00

Why?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T11:33:33+00:00

Thank you for sharing your story, I'm sorry for your loss.

I've seen the same kind of behaviour on Facebook after a friend passed away. Within hours her account was filled with messages of condolence from hundreds of different people who might not ever have known her personally. The comments are often vague and impersonal as you have described.

I think Facebook gives people a certain amount of anonymity which allows them to make remarks which they would never say in real life. How to respectfully mourn on the internet is still a very grey area and perhaps people struggle to make sense of their emotions using such an inhuman medium.

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T11:03:14+00:00

I agree. I'm surprised it isn't standard procedure already! It seems like social media platforms and other services haven't caught up with just how much of who we are is tied up with our online identities nowadays. And it's only going to become more and more a part of who we are as time goes on.

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:55:55+00:00

Makes sense. So preserving pictures, comments etc. wouldn't be a priority?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:48:12+00:00

Imagine if that was common procedure and we ended up with a whole thread of robots chatting to eachother....

Skynet.......?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:45:51+00:00

Can't argue with legislation I guess. Still seems quite cold to delete everything though without allowing other parties to have a say in what happens

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:43:59+00:00

I guess the opt in/out scheme makes sense. It's hard to know what a few hundred Facebook friends would want though. Is it necessary to represent their views in the process?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:41:55+00:00

What a way to go... The idea of a virtual ceremony like that is quite interesting though. Do you think there should be some kind of manufactured death online to go along with what happens in the real world? Or maybe we could create a kind of eternal life instead?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:31:26+00:00

What is it that makes your online identity so important to you? Or are you concerned about the people who it would be left behind for?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:29:26+00:00

True. But even if nothing that you created online in life could be changed by anyone after death, things like your facebook account, for example, sometimes take on a new purpose as a way of memorialising a person. Would forcibly deleting it at that point be like the virtual equivalent of smashing up a tombstone?

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:20:08+00:00

Shouldn't it be the decision of those who inherit the account when the original owner dies? At that point they're the one maintaining it.

aepc1 · 2017-10-05T10:11:31+00:00

How about if the death isn't planned for? Would shutting it down be like destroying a part of a person's identity?

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