Facebook: We see dead peopleAfter a new feature on Facebook created a stir by inadvertently recommending users “reconnect” with dead friends, the site has decided to “memorialise” the profiles of users who have died as creepy online tributes to the deceased.
Memorials
Michael Jackson coverage that won’t make you feel grubby
Because people are interested in Michael Jackson’s memorial — and so are we — but we want to remain above it.
The strange business of being MJ
How does such a notoriously dysfunctional American idol receive the kind of adulatory send-off even a Pope might envy? wonders Ross Stapleton.
Jackson memorial: in death, a clean slate
At his memorial, which the media couldn’t bring itself to ignore, Michael Jackson’s better self was “sprinkled over the stage like fairy dust from Neverland”, writes Robert Lloyd.
