[ WP ] A new kind of social network technology uses algorithms to simulate people after they 've passed away based on analysis of their lifetime 's worth of online activity . This allows some kind of interaction with ( and perhaps between ) lost loved ones . What are the implications and how is life now ?

When someone dies, they are gone forever. Denial ca n't change that. The death of a loved one opens up a void in the heart, and that pain can seem unbearable, but it does n't change the truth. You ca n't talk with the dead. However, new technologies can simulate life, by studying the imprint the dead left on the digital world. With our information freely given, it has become possible to recompile our digital memory into an vestige of our selves. They can communicate, but can they think, do they feel? Is it real, or is it just an echo of what once was? 
 
 Our digital memory is what we offered to others, our thoughts filtered through what we want others to think of us. It is our assumed best qualities, what we found amusing, and how we wished to present ourselves. No one put their real selves online. The internet is the tool we use to control the flow of information to others, not to connect with others. When someone posts something that others dislike, it gets ridiculed or attacked, thus filtering the content we post. Our real selves are hidden behind the screen, while our idolized versions of our selves are put on display.
