The nearly 49 million blogs at Cyworld, Naver and Daum mean that there is almost one for every person in South Korea. According to the state-run Statistics Korea agency, 246,000 people died here in 2008. Among them were 30,000 people between the ages of 20 and 40 – the demographic with the highest rate of Internet use. Since many netizens subscribe to all the services separately, that means up to 30,000 “ghost blogs” appear for that age group every year on each of Korea’s top three portals.
via And to my dear son, I leave my blog – INSIDE JoongAng Daily.
This is fascinating. I just read the Twitter has come up with a deceased policy. This woman and her son fought, and he unfriended her. Then he died suddenly. Now Naver won’t let here view the photos, etc.
Notice the graph included in the story, showing how people want their blogs disposed of (or not disposed of) after they move to the blogosphere in the sky.
Barbara K Iverson 