{"id":116,"date":"2005-12-05T00:16:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T07:16:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-05T00:16:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T00:16:53","slug":"online_communities_on_death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/online_communities_on_death\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Communities on Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>Last night, Ivan Zimmerman, a 21-year-old student at SFSU fell from the fourth floor of a dorm and died.  I didn&#8217;t know him.  As of now, it seems they haven&#8217;t yet established whether it was a suicide, accident, or result of a fight.  Regardless, he&#8217;s gone.  The week before finals, no less.I learned about this through an SFSU community on LiveJournal.  The person who posted the article included a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ivan519\">Ivan&#8217;s MySpace account<\/a>.  Interestingly, people are already leaving public goodbye comments to Ivan.  They speak to him, not about him.  They grieve in the presence of others, but they grieve directly to him.  danah boyd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/10\/28\/facebook_and_my.html\">wrote about<\/a> this phenomenon also, recently.  She&#8217;d noticed it on both MySpace and Friendster.  It&#8217;s a poignant and strange occurance, and it doesn&#8217;t seem to be an isolated event.  Online community accounts live on after sudden deaths.  It may be a little creepy, but it seems to also help (at least initially) with the grieving process.  With the tenacity online communities use to get and keep members, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if these accounts lived on for another fifty years.  So strange&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.Last night, Ivan Zimmerman, a 21-year-old student at SFSU fell from the fourth floor of a dorm and died. I didn&#8217;t know him. As of now, it seems they haven&#8217;t yet established whether it was a suicide, accident, or result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}