"I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same."
Do you feel the same as you were in the past? I don't. I' m sure you don't too. But don't worry, this post is not something that you will question yourself... This post is something fun, i promise...
Just think about the time, you spent at internet... You are reading your e-mails, answering or deleting or the worst one- forwarding, chatting by messenger, gtalk, facebook, etc..., networking, researching, surfing... The last one is the one that makes me feel hungry, sad, happy... In fact it is not me who surfs, it is my emotions... I m surfing via friendfeed and feeling so hungry when i see yummy sushi, whooper, noodle, ... I want them all!
What about the friendships? Before social networking, i was grouping my friends according to the education parts and the cities i lived in like: friends from primary school, high school, mba, Berlin, Wien, Strasbourg,Istanbul ... Now, friends from high school, uni, work, project, consulting, friendfeed, plaxo,...
Family life changed too... If i don't have an appointment with a client, i am checking my e-mails and daily to-do's before having a breakfast with mum. And i am starting my usual daily life on internet till i go to bed. Of course having dinner wtih my family, but after dinner everybody is keeping on the routines on internet. TV is on but nobody knows who watches it. I know! The cats watch... And the love is something more complex that i will write another post about it. Just a little clue: If he is a technology consultant, this means your love is so digital that you always feel it even you 2 are offline :)
So... We had a look at our lives... It is "digitalising" itself without permission... But i m so into death and graveyards... The question is "why are NOT our gravestones DIGITAL?"
I am waking up and the first thing to do is hugging my netbook, which is with me wherever i go. I will have an iphone, use gps for directions, prefer internet than tv, ... I will die as everyone and a marble-stone for my graveyard... Is this all? A stone? For all i did all my life long as a digital person? I am so sorry but i don't accept this!
This is my last will: A digital gravestone!
And a brief for my digital gravestone: elegant, stylish and touch screen...
I am not kidding. I am serious. I want a digital gravestone in which there is an ad server. I don't want my visitors feel tired by praying for me. I want these functions please:
- "Pray for" button: A sub-menu for different kinds of prays so that visitor can choose.
- Video recordable: Visitor can leave me a message
- Botego ve Sunumax services: Before i die, i will record a video in that i will explain "how to" with my gravestone.
- Adserver reports are including:
* From ... to ... (or in .. days) .. people walked through /nearby this graveyard.
* Todays visitors: ...
* This grave was visited ... times. ... of visitors prayed for her, ... of visitors left a message for her, ... of visitors watched the video.
(I will give a message here: This is important for the ads i will replace to my digital gravestone, so please click even you don't know me)
- Click for what she did in the world (this is a little about me section) and a sub navigation on ff, fb, blog, twitter,...
- Watch the videos about what people told about her after her death
- People who visited this grave also visited ...
- Last visitors
- Most frequent visitors
- I want "like, didn't like, loved, comment" properties as in ff. This will seem as a feed stream on the right side.
One of the most importants is that: People can remote pray or - comment without visiting the grave. No worries, adserver will count it too. People can watch my grave live 7/24 by a microsite.
Shortly, people have no chance to go on without me even after me :)
Ahh, for the ones who want to donate, "The shroud has no pockets" button.
Note: This post was inspired by a hotel ad at the corner of a graveyard in Antalya on the way to airport and i had a great conversation with great friends Harun Pekşen, Eren Kumcuoğlu and prof. Dr. Şule Özmen. This post is dedicated to these great 3 likeminded people.
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