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It's mind boggling that for the author people are either alive or dead, no one's sick or incapacitated, and everyone have access to the Web. Utopian much?

(Dare I guess it was written by a white affluent young male?)



>It's mind boggling that for the author people are either alive or dead, no one's sick or incapacitated, and everyone have access to the Web. Utopian much?

It's mind moggling that you raise this point and call it "mind boggling".

What's "ming boggling" about it? People are either alive or dead, period. And for the purposes of the article, that's the only distinction that matters.

What if someone has the flu or is in hospital for 6 months, or even looses his leg or something? Does that affect his Facebook page, besides him neglecting it for a while maybe? And even if it did, what the duck does it have to do with the topic that interests the article, i.e the amassing of pages by dead users?


> (Dare I guess it was written by a white affluent young male?)

Yes, us awful young white males are never sick.




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