Your life, your friendships, causes, groups and fan pages—even your death—all on a social network’s terms. Death is difficult enough. In America, there is an expectation that everyone has to have everything figured out when they die: finances, funeral arrangements, cancellation of magazines, etc.; faith, bills, insurance, the soul’s final resting place, and who will care for loved ones. To this, I submit to you, we now must add the obligations that web 2.0 bring us.

In the summer of 2009, in Chippewa Falls, Wis., three young men lost their lives. …

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I was walking through the living room the other day and my roommates were flipping through the channels. A show came up, and I was forced to stop, sit down, and watch for approximately 10 minutes. What caused this change of planned activities was what was on TV. It was a new reality show on MTV. Now, my abhorrence of MTV and reality television in general would normally cause me to avoid this situation. However, this show was so ridiculous that I had to sit down for fear of passing out. Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. REALLY? The premise of …

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