A social networking Web site for Americans aged 50-plus went live on Monday — complete with an online obituary database that sends out alerts when someone you may know dies and that plans to set up a do-it-yourself funeral service.
The founder of Internet job site Monster.com, Jeff Taylor, launched Eons.com, a similar site to the popular online teen hang-outs MySpace or Facebook for the 50-plus crowd.
Instead of career and school sections, Eons.com has interactive games to build brain strength, news on entertainment and hobbies for older people, a personalized longevity calculator and tips to live longer.
It also has a nationwide database of obituaries dating back to the 1930s to which people can add photos and comments.
Phew so that’s what it was. I thought one of my sites was starting to add something new or crack up and that it was so important that there was a headline about it. It’s like someone in The Twilight Zone reading about themselves in the morning papers and not knowing that they are dead or something.
Interesting site though. A mom I knew did read the ‘death notices’ but she was more interested in learning and fun stuff on the computer doing something happy rather than neutral or factual like obituaries are. It’s interesting how sites put a target on our backs it makes me stop and think how much we’re a part of the machine and loving it.