Re: Facebook etiqutette query ...

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On 5/18/10 3:56 AM, Rick Wesson wrote:
> a friend of ours passed away a few weeks ago, young guy, just 37 years old and
> had a massive heart attack on the couch; his wife found him when she came home.
> Its a bummer. We were wondering what to do with his FB page.

It's en "empty space". We call these empty spaces.

Back in the day when people left or were removed from Facebook, their 
messages would disappear completely, leaving comment dialogues as 
monologues, etc. The name stuck.

I still run across Dude on LinkedIn on occasion.

> -rick
>
> Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon&  Hannah wrote:
> > To depart from the topic of privacy, momentarily, I note that it has recently
> > become fashionable to create a Facebook "group" in memory of some departed
> > loved one.
> >
> > Which raises the question:
> >
> > am I supposed to be a "fan" of the fact that someone I knew died?
> >
> > or am I supposed to "like" the fact that a friend has died?
> >
> > ======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
> > rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
> > For any number X which is less than 2^N (for any N), a maximum of
> > (N + log(N) + log (log(N)))/8 bytes is necessary to represent X.
> > The math could be slightly incorrect, but it sounds right.
> >                                                            - RFC 2795
> > victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html
> > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
> > http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade
> > _______________________________________________
> > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
> > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
> > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.


-- 
Gadi Evron,
ge () linuxbox org.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/
_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.