Bloggers, myspace, flickr. What happens when you die? (1 Viewer)

[freddienonose]

Questions for those you with a heavy online presence.

What happens to all of these things if you die? Have you thought about it? Made arrangements with a mate or family member to go and clean this stuff up? Do you know people online - and only online - who wouldn't find out if you died? Does this bother you? Have you made a list of them?

Would you be cool with your blog or flickr or myspace or whatever just sort of hanging there, no entries beyond the day you died? What if it became a sort of online memorial as so many of them do? Is that healthy?

It's for an article I'm working on. Morbid, I know. New ground, though.

Difficult enough for relatives to deal with the mobile, now this.

 

[CitySickness]

This should be of some use:
http://www.mydeathspace.com/

 

[freddienonose]

This should be of some use:
http://www.mydeathspace.com/

Yeah, thanks. Had a chat with the owner today. He's open to offers over $750,000 if anyone's interested...

 

[Pantone247]

the grave yard I reserved a plot in has wi-fi

 

[CitySickness]

the grave yard I reserved a plot in has wi-fi

Reception's shit through soil unless you've got 802.11g

 

[Squiggle]

Well, since I am reliably informed by one of those "when will you die" online tests that I will live to be 92... and I have no intention of being an octogenarian myspacer I imagine I'll have taken them all down long before I die.

 

[Pantone247]

Reception's shit through soil unless you've got 802.11g

luckily my e-mail has auto reply

"Hi!
I'm dead and won't be checking my messages. If you need immediate assistance, please contact the Help Desk at 617.552.HELP(4357).
Thanks!
P247"

 

[classic seanc]

I deleted my MySpace earlier this week. I'm still alive.

 

[CitySickness]

I deleted my MySpace earlier this week. I'm still alive.

Not for long. Expect the bony-knuckled rap on the door any day now.

 

[freddienonose]

Well, since I am reliably informed by one of those "when will you die" online tests that I will live to be 92... and I have no intention of being an octogenarian myspacer I imagine I'll have taken them all down long before I die.

You never know. I've nearly died by mistake a couple of times.

 

[CitySickness]

Here's another semi-relevant story, Mr. Nonose.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/murderblog.html

 

[CitySickness]

Yeah, thanks. Had a chat with the owner today. He's open to offers over $750,000 if anyone's interested...

What does he look like? Ever since Demi Moore got it on with Robert Redford, $1,000,000 is kinda the base level for this sort of transaction.

 

[freddienonose]

Here's another semi-relevant story, Mr. Nonose.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/murderblog.html

Thanks again. Hadn't seen this one.

He looks a bit peaky, wears black a lot.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

i think about this now and again....like would yr virtual buddies who you've never met know you were dead? then again would they care!?! (delete from friends!) seriously tho, its weird.

 

[Pantone247]

like would yr virtual buddies who you've never met know you were dead? then again would they care!?! (delete from friends!) seriously tho, its weird.

no one here would care if you died

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sorry, that came out wrong... what I mean is...

if you died, no one here would care

better?

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[Charlie Bucket]

no one here would care if you died

[edit]

sorry, that came out wrong... what I mean is...

if you died, no one here would care

better?

[/edit]

 

[Lord Damian]

i'll be taking the entire internet out with me in a blaze of glory.

 

[freddienonose]

i think about this now and again....like would yr virtual buddies who you've never met know you were dead? then again would they care!?! (delete from friends!) seriously tho, its weird.

It is. A mate of mine gave her mother a list of names, email addresses, MSN nicknames etc to be contacted in the event of her death. For people, and they're out there, who spend almost as much time socialising online as they do in the real world, it's got to be something to think about.

Suppose in years to come, it'll become more so, get worked into wills etc.

And I know 20 years is a lifetime in web terms, and blogs and suchlike might be long gone by then, but when that amount of time has gone by there could be hundreds of thousands of myspace pages, blogs etc just frozen in time with pics of the now decomposed larking around in healthier times, arranging nights out, talking about reality TV etc. Creepy, fascinating, historical document? All of the above really.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

id be more concerned about my beloved mr pharmacist account on thumped.
i probably see you fucks more than i do my girlfriend lately.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

And I know 20 years is a lifetime in web terms, and blogs and suchlike might be long gone by then, but when that amount of time has gone by there could be hundreds of thousands of myspace pages, blogs etc just frozen in time with pics of the now decomposed larking around in healthier times, arranging nights out, talking about reality TV etc. Creepy, fascinating, historical document? All of the above really.

maybe someone will make a reality tv show about it?
"This User No Longer Exists"/"Logged Out"