Posthumously Managing Your Digital Footprint

EjGlows

EjGlows

Well-known member
Last night we heard news that a good friend of ours has passed and that got me thinking a little about our digital footprints; the texts last shared, posts on Facebook, little nibbles of thoughts sprinkled around the binary expanse.

How do you expect to manage your identity and the perception of who you were when you're gone? Is there a legacy you care about?
 
Yakoo752

Yakoo752

USN
EjGlows said:
Post was not intended to be a nuts-and-bolts discussion but more of a survey of how you feel about your legacy in the digital world.
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ah :thumbup

I am fairly self conscious about what I post online so I'm not too concerned about how I am portrayed in post life. Outside of FB, I really don't have much for social media.

I am intrigued about how music and movie collections (all digital art) will be handed off...
 
bcv_west

bcv_west

Well-known member
Deep thoughts for a hump-day morning. Very sorry to hear about your friend's passing.

To be honest, I've never given my digital legacy a thought. I suppose it's worth considering; family photo albums and old love letters have been replaced with far more ephemeral digital versions of ourselves. No telling what will be passed around at family reunions 100 years from now. Some industrious person will no doubt offer a 'digital cryogenics' service; a deep analytics engine that creates the kind of profile only used by marketers today, with a scannable barcode on your tombstone.

Beyond that, I'll probably continue to spare it little thought. I mostly try to be me, and when I die, the people I care about will know me (and one hopes, love me) in spite of myself. I'd prefer not to deliver a packaged or sanitized version; human foibles and failings are what connect us over the generations.
 
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Mike95060

Mike95060

Work In Progress
EjGlows said:
Last night we heard news that a good friend of ours has passed and that got me thinking a little about our digital footprints; the texts last shared, posts on Facebook, little nibbles of thoughts sprinkled around the binary expanse.

How do you expect to manage your identity and the perception of who you were when you're gone? Is there a legacy you care about?
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Um, when I'm dead I'm sure I won't care. I might leave my passwords to someone if I'm that worried about it. I'm ok with letting the living manage or not manage my online persona.
 
Agent Orange

Agent Orange

The b0y ninja
A friend of mine passed away some time ago. Her FB is still active. On her birthday, people will leave little notes for her in her memory Kind of a nice way to see someone as they were before they left.
 
Blankpage

Blankpage

alien
Agent Orange said:
A friend of mine passed away some time ago. Her FB is still active. On her birthday, people will leave little notes for her in her memory Kind of a nice way to see someone as they were before they left.
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I had a buddy I hadn't seen in years. A month ago another friend sent a message to his FB page. His wife replied that he had died in April.
Seemed an odd way to find out.
 
wannabe

wannabe

"Insignificant Other"
Agent Orange said:
A friend of mine passed away some time ago. Her FB is still active. On her birthday, people will leave little notes for her in her memory Kind of a nice way to see someone as they were before they left.
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Three of my FB 'freids' are dead. I'm glad that the FB pages were never taken down. It's nice to go through and flip through the pics every once in a while to remember the good times.

In answer to the original question, I don't really care about my digital footprint after I die.
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

is insensitive
EjGlows said:
Last night we heard news that a good friend of ours has passed and that got me thinking a little about our digital footprints; the texts last shared, posts on Facebook, little nibbles of thoughts sprinkled around the binary expanse.

How do you expect to manage your identity and the perception of who you were when you're gone? Is there a legacy you care about?
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I don't worry about it, because I am immortal. I did have to hack my dad's Facebook account after he died to sort of notify his network that he had passed and all that good stuff. I believe there are some services you can pay for that take care of this kind of thing for you.
 
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