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I admire their spunk and wonder, what would happen if every blogger supported them?

We are planning our final “protest” and funeral for Lively this upcoming Thursday, December 18th from 8:30 am until 9:00 am — this will be held in a virtual world graveyard. Thus far, Google has not acknowledged our letters for this virtual world and we are prepared for Google Lively to shut down.

I feel very upset that Google will not acknowledge our efforts to save Lively. We have sent them emails and even held other protests that they still will not respond to. We have also emailed major news groups and posted multiple blogs about why Google should keep this wonderful program that we are in love with. I would like to say that no matter what happens, we will know that we did not give up without a fight. We stood, in the presence of a multi-billion dollar company, and fought. We did not let Google ever rest without telling more about our wonderful Lively.

The protest will be held in a graveyard to express the death of the program and all its avatars. We would love to have your support for the final protest where we pay tribute to our amazing program, and try one last time to convince Lively to keep it. I would like to thank you all for the valuable support that you have given us these past few weeks. Please check back here at 8:20 am on Thursday at which time the link to our graveyard will be posted.

Keep Alively!!!
Source: Digiteen Dream Team

Who the Digiteens are:

Who is the Digiteen Dream Team?

We are ninth grade students at Westwood Schools in Camilla and started this blog to speak out about the fact that Google Lively is shutting down.

We have three major goals at this time:

1) Encouraging Corporate Digital Citizenship

Companies that discontinue services should try to provide alternatives to their users to be able to save content and continue use of the service in other ways. This is good digital citizenship for corporations.

2) Sharing How We Think Virtual Worlds Can be Used in Schools

We believe virtual worlds are great tools and want to share what we’ve done and how we think companies can profit from providing these services to students like us.

3) Creation of a Digital World to Teach Digital Citizenship to Students

Our dream is to teach digital citizenship to students via an easy to use 3D virtual world that is easily accessible to people who do not have a lot of bandwidth or good computers and allow schools to create rooms at minimal or no expense. We will explore other alternatives, share what we find, and pursue this goal.

Do not go…

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