A while back, I wrote about the possibility of social automation leading to digital dopplegangers who stayed around long after our deaths (Digital Ghosts – Something creepy this way comes). Looks like I’m not the only one who’s been thinking about this topic.
@tomscott, creator of the hilarious Actual Facebook Graph Searches tumblr and subsequent meme, created a (also hilarious) video on this topic. When Facebook Resurrected the Dead takes a mock historical perspective on the creation of the digital afterlife. Continue reading