Article about Mydeathspace on Las Vegas Weekly.com
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/content/nc/news/the-intersection/single-story/article/mortaiity-heres-where-you-go-when-you-die/
Mortaiity(sic): Here's where you go when you die
Living on at MyDeathSpace.com
Excerpt from article:
This reporter contacted me, but I wasn't able to give an interview before her deadline. I was curious as to what kind of spin she would put on it. The typo made me think it said "Morality" just for a split second! I was like :-o Oh, nice spin :| But no, that wasn't the case!MyDeathSpace.com, an unaffiliated spinoff of the popular social networking site MySpace, serves as an obituary database for MySpace users who have died. It links news accounts of the deaths with their MySpace profiles, and the result is haunting and, to some, addictive.
It’s so addictive that some users of MyDeathSpace have single-handedly posted as many as 5,000 messages on the site’s forums analyzing, debating and, in some cases, mocking the dead.
The site has given way to a subculture of morbidity-obsessed amateur detectives ranging from goth kids to grandmothers who plunder MySpace profiles and the rest of the net looking for incriminating pictures, blogs, police and autopsy reports and other bits of information that will either add weight or levity to the death stories.
I don't remember who Sheena is here from Las Vegas. Just wondering, you don't have to say though. Congrats BFT, nice mention for you! Of all the things I have said here, I had to chuckle on what she said about my posts. It could have been so much worse! Me and my auto submit link idea! hehe Thanks Jen.
I still don't think Mike is making much (if any) money off this and if he is, I doubt it offsets all the time he has put into this website. And even though this site provides mounds of entertainment for many of us, I do feel that there will be some, if not many lives saved due to the exposure of the many tragedies that take so many lives in so many ways.