I read with great interest David Lee’s article on Guardian.co.uk titled There’s life after death if you’re online.
The piece focused on what online organisations such as Facebook are doing with people’s profiles when or if they die. I’ll leave you to read the article yourself but I think this can only become a bigger issue in the coming years.
I mean if you passed away tomorrow I doubt the first or even last thing your family would think to do is remove your social networking profiles – not to mention the fact that they can’t even log-in to your account anyway. This may be a good thing initially, as your friends could post messages of condolence, but what about those friends who don’t realise?
Do you continue to exist forever?
How online organisations, and in fact, families deal with erasing the digital footprint of an individual in future is a very interesting topic. One which will only affect us more and more as our online lives become more complex.
