There is a debate in Swedish news media regarding diseased peoples facebook profiles, do we honour them by letting the profile remain as a virtual bversion of the deas person, or is it simply disrespectful? In the infomation age – death is no longer definite. I have previously ecountered virtual cities in the anthropological article by Khosravi and Graham (in Reordering Public and Private in Iranian Cyberspace, 2002) .The example in the article is a city destroyed by war is virtually existing online. This online virtual sphere is becoming more and more emergent to research, I stress the concept Anthropology 2.0 because I believe that there is so much to be investigated in what we call ‘cyberspace’. Further reading on cyberspace research I recommend is of course one of ,my favourite books ‘Coming of age in Second Life’ by Tom Boellstorff, 2008 and ‘The Internet – an ethnographical approach’ by Miller and Slater, 2000. Please let me know if you have any more tips for further reading.

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