{"id":1719,"date":"2007-07-04T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/social-networking-site-for-dead-people\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:52:10","slug":"social-networking-site-for-dead-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/social-networking-site-for-dead-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Social networking site for dead people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Respectance\" title=\"Respectance\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/respectance.png\" \/>When I was 10 I went to my nan\u2019s funeral and stayed up all night with my uncle Mike watching naked American women on television. Grief hits people in different ways.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Perhaps if my nan died now I would take advantage of the latest social networking site \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.respectance.com\/\">Respectance<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2007\/06\/04\/respectance-a-site-for-people-who-have-died-raises-250000\">Founded<\/a> by entrepreneur<\/span> Tom Wilkinson and Kazaa man Richard Derks, the site allows grievers to write tributes and memories, share photos and videos, and build and join various groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\" class=\"MsoNormal\">A quick tour of the site shows-up tributes to the usual crowd \u2013 Kurt Cobain, Bob Marley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.respectance.com\/search\/elvis_presley\/\">Elvis Presley<\/a> (of whom one writer adds &#8211; amazing man, especially in Las Vegas), with length<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Sparky LoLo\" title=\"Sparky LoLo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/sparkylolo.png\" \/>y biographies &#8211; as well as more touching and personal memories from recently bereaved families and friends. Side-by-side all these are a whole group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.respectance.com\/search\/dogs\/\">dead dogs<\/a> wearing sunglasses or superman costumes with tributes such as, \u2018Sparky LoLo was a great pup\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Only in death, and on the worldwide web, does it seem are we all truly equal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The site is not accepting advertising but charges $1 for each funeral video. People video funerals? I\u2019m only glad my nan died when she did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-dog-blog.com\/blog.php\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 10 I went to my nan\u2019s funeral and stayed up all night with my uncle Mike watching naked American women on television. Grief hits people in different ways. Perhaps if my nan died now I would take advantage of the latest social networking site \u2013 Respectance. Founded by entrepreneur Tom Wilkinson and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/social-networking-site-for-dead-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social networking site for dead people&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337472,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/337472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}