Find A Grave: Social Media Icon

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Host Ben Brock Johnson and producer Quincy Walters go to an historic Boston cemetery to try out findagrave.com — a volunteer-generated database of millions of graves throughout the world.

At the cemetery, Ben and Quincy have a hard time finding anyone who's ever heard of the site that's been around since 1995. Despite this, Quincy makes the argument that Find a Grave is one of the first social media sites that doesn't get the respect it deserves. "But how is it social media if no one knows about it?" Ben asks.

Then the pair encounter a veteran user of the site. After that, they get ahold of the guy who started Find a Grave. Does he think Find a Grave is social media? Find out in this episode of Endless Thread.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the Peabody Essex Museum with the Salem Witch Trials restoring justice,
0:07.0	presenting Salem's only collection of authentic objects from 1692.
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0:44.0	W-B-U-R podcasts, Boston.
0:54.0	Hello, Emery.
0:57.0	Hello, Ben.
1:00.0	Are you carving pumpkins?
1:06.0	I just had some dried mango.
1:12.0	That's not scary.
1:16.0	Dried mangoes not scary.
1:18.0	Oh, I'm sorry.
1:19.0	Pumpkins not scary either.
1:21.0	That's true.
1:22.0	If you want, you can pretend that instead of like mango leather, it was human leather.
1:28.8	I take it too far.
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