Ancestry.com is for sale[1] and it is the largest social network in the world (granted, most profiles are inactive).
The potential is huge for an acquirer, however, it would be relatively easy for another social network to allow members to create profiles for the deceased. In the future, many of today's social network connections might just function as 1st person genealogical records (provided the companies can sustain).
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Ancestry.com is for sale[1] and it is the largest social network in the world (granted, most profiles are inactive).
The potential is huge for an acquirer, however, it would be relatively easy for another social network to allow members to create profiles for the deceased. In the future, many of today's social network connections might just function as 1st person genealogical records (provided the companies can sustain).
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-22/ancestry-said-to-se...
> most profiles are inactive
Beautiful euphemism for "died before the Internet was invented"