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TheScribe
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Registered: 02-2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 62
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What if... I was hit by a bus?
Someone was telling me about a group he belonged to where the owner disappeared for a few months but the group continued on regardless.
Some time later, like four months, a message appeared by the owner which was obviously written by a family member saying that the person had died. Next day the group was gone.
The someone I was talking to approached me (because I own a group like the one deleted) and asked me "What if...?" what would happen to the group (and my message board)? Was I prepared?
I know that's quite morbid and all but it got me wondering. If I suddenly disappeared what would people do? How would they find out what was happening? Would they even notice (I know some would)?
In reverse, what if one of you stopped visiting the boards? We'd assume you got sick of it but what if something bad had happened? We'd never know.
My apologies. I didn't mean for this post to be dark and morbid. In my typing, I seemed to have lost what I was trying to say...
--- Karen Lee Field
Author of The Land of Miu series
Available from: Smashwords or Kayelle Press
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27/Aug/04, 12:56
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Firlefanz
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Registered: 05-2003
Location: Germany
Posts: 560
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Re: What if... I was hit by a bus?
The most important point would be to hand over ownership - that's necessary if a board is meant to continue.
It's a good thought, Alpha, and very throrough. And not morbid at all, Scribes.
--- - Firlefanz
Reading: Nothing right now
Rewriting: "The Cloth-Merchant's Daughter", 2nd Lar Elien book
My board - Schreiberlinge unter sich
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28/Aug/04, 9:43
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TheScribe
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Registered: 02-2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 62
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Re: What if... I was hit by a bus?
My partner knows how to contact Firle and I believe he'd look to her for instructions on what to do to transfer ownership of the board.
If the terrible thing happened to both of us though, my kids wouldn't give my online activities a thought. Not for a second! So no amount of emailing would produce a response. I would just vanish into nothingness... and the board?? <shrugs>
--- Karen Lee Field
Author of The Land of Miu series
Available from: Smashwords or Kayelle Press
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28/Aug/04, 11:06
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TheScribe
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Registered: 02-2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 62
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Re: What if... I was hit by a bus?
lol, hello Addi's daughter. Sorry, I shouldn't say that because you are a person in your own right. Hello Sofx.
Addi, I don't like thinking about those things either. Enough said already.
--- Karen Lee Field
Author of The Land of Miu series
Available from: Smashwords or Kayelle Press
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29/Aug/04, 6:10
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Funkdooby
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Registered: 08-2004
Location: Rampton
Posts: 51
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Re: What if... I was hit by a bus?
That is one of the strange things about this virtual world - mostly we know very little about who we're talking to. Often not their real name, often not even the country they're from, and rarely any real time contact details. I've known lots of people who just suddenly vanished. Sometimes they reappear again later, sometimes they don't. I read somewhere that the most common cause is PC failure. By the time a person gets back up and running again, things have moved on and they never return to old haunts, preferring to start afresh.
I guess that adds to the often ethereal and mysterious nature of the internet. People can be whatever they want to be out here, reinvent themselves, be invisible, be beautiful, have totally different personalities to those they have in the real world etc. It brings out the very best and worst in many people.
I've had web friends who have died. In most cases, relatives knew they had that online contacts and let us know what had happened, but in one case I only found out when I read an (old) online news report of how someone had been killed in a road traffic accident. He'd been the owner of a board of which I'd been a member for years, and who had inexplicably stopped posting one day.
I have also known more than one attention seeker who has sought to fake their own death or serious injury, presumably to discover the kind of reaction they'd get. It's strange world out here, populated by all manner of personalities.
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30/Aug/04, 9:46
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Ahlyssah
Senior Member
Registered: 07-2004
Location: Lost in a dream of mirrors
Posts: 830
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Re: What if... I was hit by a bus?
Ditto. And even if they did, who would care long enough to be affected (not about you, GC!)? I seen the effect deaths have on the people at my school: crying, hugging, reminiscing for an hour and a half, but by third period, all has been forgotten.
Maybe I should just stick my live journal URL in my sig; that way, if I'm gone for several weeks, and my latest entry seems particularly morbid, assume I'm not coming back.
--- There are things which Man can not understand. For everything else, there's a lie.
Let's see if we can't get to the truth of the matter, hmm?
'Lyssa was here . . . and she'll be back
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27/Oct/04, 11:53
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