There’s A Social Network For Dead People Now

But the dead can’t untag themelves in photos.

An Israeli entrepreneur has set up a social network called Neshama. It has a slight twist: it's for dead people.

An Israeli entrepreneur has set up a social network called Neshama. It has a slight twist: it's for dead people.

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The site, founded by Shelly Furman Asa, allows people to upload pictures of graves and makes them them searchable by name.

Asa wants the site to be a way for family and friends to add memories and experiences of their dead loved ones. There are some 120,000 on there right now.

Initially, Neshama just took shots of graves in six cemeteries in Israel, but he wants to add more.

Asa says he spent several hundred thousand shekels, or at least £30,000, building the project.

There are many things that have been done in connection with the commemoration of soldiers, Holocaust victims and so on. But we don't have simple ways to commemorate – with high visibility – ordinary, everyday people who did not die in heroic circumstances.

This is the grave of Ofra Haza, a famous singer, at Yarkon Cemetery near Tel Aviv, one of the participating cemeteries.

This is the grave of Ofra Haza, a famous singer, at Yarkon Cemetery near Tel Aviv, one of the participating cemeteries.

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