One of my colleagues has just pointed out 'Mydeathspace' to me (here). Unbelievably, it is a place where Myspace users go when they die. It allows you to 'submit a death' and has an ariel view style map of the geographical locations of the most recent deaths. From just a quick scan of the website it is quite shocking how young all the deaths are. I know that Myspace is used by a lot of younger people, but in my research I have found that many 20+ year olds are using Myspace. I will try and factor Mydeathspace into my research.
What a great example of an embodied experience due to the fact our online profiles need to be accounted for in some way after we die in RL. Is there an avenue here for people to 'play' with the notion of death? As users in Myspace have a number of online profiles that may be fake in some cases how is this represented in the mydeathspace pages. All of this stuff brings some interesting questions into view.
'Mydeathspace' is not endorsed or affiliated with Myspace in any way. It will be interesting to see how they react.
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