Rusty Foster Isn't Dead

While he was vacationing with his wife, Kuro5hin founder Rusty Foster was killed — at least in the eyes of Facebook. NBC News details how it happened: a "pal" pranked both Foster and Facebook by notifying the social site of Foster's supposed death, providing as documentation the obituary of another, much older man by the same name. Getting the Facebook version of his life back took some doing; based on this article it seems much easier to convince Facebook that you're dead than that you're alive.

Comments

Re:Typical Bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

'Frosty Piss' being a loose anagram of First Post stating the obvious and tending to drift off towards an editor bashin' slant is probably the intent of the moderation.

The topic here is the content of the submission, viz some web forum founder's faked death - not whether the submission should have indeed made it to the story page...

I just wanna shove some coal up inside your asshole. When it makes its way back out it will be a bunch of diamonds.

We'll be rich! Isn't that just great, you uptight bastard?

Re:It was an understandable mixup

[jamstar7]

Pretty much, yeah. Couple neckbeards still post their blogs there, but I was just over there, and the latest article was from Dec 17th of last year. The article at the end of the page was a year old.

So much for culture and geek tech 'down in the trenches'.