Digital life lives on
Submitted by jarah on Wed, 01/11/2006 - 12:06.
Fresno State student and FIJI frat member Danny Daniels died over the weekend of unknown causes. Since his body was found the morning after a frat party, speculation on cause of death immediately turned to alcohol. Fresno State officials have threatened to sever ties with the fraternity if it is found alcohol played a role in the 19 year-old's death.
In an article in today's Fresno Bee, reporter Denny Boyles quotes liberally from Daniel's MySpace blog. Daniels was apparently not shy about chronicling his beer bong usage and other frat party exploits. Another MySpace user, Beehler, writes in his MySpace blog:
I wake up earlier than all you people so I look on the fresno bee online page to see the latest headlines. There's another story on Danny so I look at it and I was surprised to find out that the Fresno Bee had dug into his blog and started reading it. Furthermore they printed some of the stuff in the paper. My goodness. All of us might wanna be careful of what we put on our myspaces from now on.
It's a sentiment echoed in a recent New York Times article on the popular social networking site for college students, Facebook.
AS far as Kyle Stoneman is concerned, the campus police were the ones who started the Facebook wars. "We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us," says Mr. Stoneman, a senior at George Washington University in Washington. He is convinced that the campus security force got wind of a party he and some buddies were planning last year by monitoring Facebook.com, the phenomenally popular college networking site. The officers waited till the shindig was in full swing, Mr. Stoneman grouses, then shut it down on discovering under-age drinking.
The students retaliated by promoting another party, only this time when the cops arrived the students were eating cake and cookies, with no beer.
The current generation (a recent issue of Business Week calls them the MySpace generation, or Generation @) is totally comfortable living their lives online. The problem now is that the old people- parents, police, school administrators, are catching up.
UPDATE: The Fresno County coroner determined cause of death to be acute alcohol posioning. Daniels' blood alcohol level was found to be .34, four times the legal limit. Another Fresno State student expresses disgust at the publication of Daniels' MySpace blog, yet still hasn't quite caught on to the public nature of the internet.
Deaths caused from Water Vs. Death from Marijuana.
There are no deaths caused from an overdose of the marijuana. Are there Deaths from Water, Yes many, too many. But Water is still not banned.
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I don't know if there are so many deaths caused by marijuana... maybe most of them are because of combining god knows what with it.
diggin up the blogs of the dead
People should ABSOLUTELY think about what they're posting up onto the internet....the way i figure it, once you've put something out into cyerspace digitally. E-mails, photos, diary entries.
"Password protection" is a myth...the modern ability to disperse access codes to the WORLD'S enquiring minds make 'restrictive information' a moot point.
Generation "at-mark" huh??
this is an interesting question that i'm sure we'll hear more about as the blogosphere continues to evolve. my take: we've already seen myspace, livejournal and other social networking sites used in the news, most recently I remember a story about a missing college student and seeing a lot about her myspace account reported. people put this information out there. there's an option to make your blogs friends only or private on myspace. i'm sure that people don't think about "hmmm. i wonder if the media will track down my blog when I die" as they're writing, but maybe it's more and more something to consider. in my opinion: i consider something like that kinda like hearsay, not much different than if a friend was recounting verbally something that happened between he/she and Danny.
again, I don't really have an answer for this, but I think it's an interesting topic of discussion that we'll probably see more of in the future.
Myspace dribble?
I think most people on thisahere blog have myspace accounts and it's a really good way to keep in touch with friends. Sucking up to what, I wonder? I've found tons of people I lost touch with when I was an undergrad and living in another part of the city as well as relatives around the country. It's getting pretty common to hear at parties, "Are you on myspace?" but I guess I should applaud you for how punk rock you are to abstain. But what do I know? I'm a luddite without cable or a cell phone.
You gotta be kidding
Never looked at his mySpace page, but in general, mySpace users are major suck-ups. They have to be in order get others to link up to their boring, non-stop, dribble drama drool.
3 years ago
Three years ago, a young woman died from drinking to much at a party, it was reported in the Bee but did not get as much press coverage as this guy? Why is that more important now than a few years ago, when this young woman died? (I can't find a link to the Bee story on her, as this time)
It's not really new news that people can really drink themselves to death, but can someone smoke themselves to death with marijuana? If you know this is true and can prove it you can gain a $100,000 reward.
Does the Ghost of Al Radka have a myspace profile?
Pretty sad!
Judging from his myspace, it looks like Danny had a lot of people who cared about him!
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