I am excited to see how the timeline performs for 800 million people, because maybe I'm very wrong about it. It feels pretty sleek, but I found it laborious to curate. Perhaps that will bother few people.
I agree, the internet is not the right medium for every aspect. But I do think it has a certain level of accessibility and mobility real life cannot offer.
My grandfather's gravestone is in Pueblo, Colorado a thousand miles away in a town I have few reasons to visit. If I had a digital library of memories, I could connect with him more regularly than every 15 years. But he was pre-internet and I have no access to these things. I am stuck with memories in my head, which fade in time (one of the tribulations of being human).
I'm sure there's website out there where you can write prayers out and publish them into the abyss. But when it comes to speaking to ancestors or the deceased, why not?
Clever observation, though I'm not sure I intended the subliminal message. I have mixed feelings about Facebook's longterm value and scope, but I cannot deny how powerful this network is. Read more of my thoughts on it here: http://www.craigormiston.com/post/4910698242/will-facebook-r...
I think this is a great idea! Facebook could use this functionality.
You can declare certain people on Facebook "family members." Perhaps you could assign those people certain permissions to control your profile in specific use cases, like death.
Automation in a service like this is key because, well, you're dead and you can't do anything about it.
Facebook should consider features the user can control that take effect upon death. A user would have to have a certain level of foresight about their mortality, but i think that could have a very positive effect.
I think what your team is doing is very noble. You are absolutely correct, Facebook was not tailored to this kind of activity. We need a real platform to memorialize others and - more importantly to the average user - a place where we can memorialize OURSELVES. Mortality is a big issue and we all want to be preserved for eternity in a positive light. Facebook does not give us control over this postmortem public image.
As others have pointed out, 1000memories sits outside of mainstream networks. It asks users to go out of their way to memorialize and interact with the deceased on a platform beyond their daily traffic. Perhaps not a barrier to entry issue, my guess is that 1000memories has a retention issue. How do you keep people coming back after their first visit?
Is there a way 1000memories could better tie in social media and their networks? An obviously example would be to pull a user's Twitter feed into the mix of memories. Family and friends could rank the most memorable tweets and promote certain aspects of the deceased's published life. The same concept applies to blogs, Flickr photos, and Facebook updates.
To win social media integration, the deceased party would need to give 1000memories permission to connect with social media accounts pre-passing and regulate the content that can be shared. 1000memories could market to the living to set up an account that "gives you control of the memories you leave behind." A "will" for postmortem digital image.
I would use a service that offered me the ability to control my image postmortem.
I truly am sorry I wasted your time.