DeadSocial, a new social networking site provides a platform for Facebook users to send messages even after they are dead.
Social networking sites have become such a big part of a person's everyday life that companies have now come up with ways to be online even after one's death. A new website, DeadSocial, allows users to sign up for a Facebook account that will remain active even when the user passes away. While alive, users can write and store messages that will be delivered to friends, family, children and spouses even after the user dies.
"It really allows you to be creative and literally extend the personality you had while alive in death. It allows you to be able to say those final goodbye" DeadSocial founder, James Norris, told CNN.
Norris told CNN that, among Internet users, younger people tend to make jokes about their deceased status, while older users opt for more heartfelt messages. DeadSocial will officially launch out of beta at the South by Southwest Festival in March.
Another Facebook application called "If I Die" allows users to make their last words immortal. These words get memorized by the application and will be posted as a public Facebook message that will be revealed after a person has passed away. Users can record their message and choose Facebook friends who will be in charge of reporting the death. After that happens, the message will become activated.
Erez Rubinstein, a partner at "If I Die," spoke about this application to CNN and said, "Somebody that knows he's about to die gets time to prepare himself; the big challenge is when it happens unexpectedly. ... It's an era where most of your life and most of your presence is digital, and you want to have some control over it. You want to be in charge of how you are perceived afterward."