What of your online life after you are no more?
Posted by Abhijith as Uncategorized
The untimely death of a couple of young bloggers got me thinking again. What will happen to your online social life after you are no more? Many of us are increasingly having multiple accounts on websites, own domains, making our presence felt to people who we know only as an alias…. Suddenly, without notice, if we were incapacitated in some form, who would take charge of them? First things first, hacking into mail accounts will be difficult, do you think it is feasible to contact the web host and convey to them that one of their customers is dead, and that they reveal the passwords? Who would they do it to? Why should they? Will it be any different from a con artist stealing your passwords? Rather than cheap mail passwords, I am mainly concerned about sites which are maintained by a single person or two people, which are tremendous sources of information, mostly blogs, like snopes.com.
The web is a relatively new phenomenon; since we are the second generation to use the web, it will be some time before a norm appears for our online ‘assets’ to be passed on to our peers/descendants. It looks like we will have to write a will now itself, so that our online life can be shared with whomever we want to. As of now most free websites usually do not pull down inactive accounts, but it is too soon to say that. To think of it, with something like 9 mail accounts and countless numerous other website passes, I will need to put all of it down somewhere so that it will be accessible only when required. But do we again need to reveal our mail contents? What use will it be? Are all these considered assets worthy of some value?
Not to forget the contents of the laptop/cellphones.
On the one hand, it is interesting to watch how protocol will work itself out regarding passwords and stuff; on the other it is scary that it will one day happen to you. The day your peers realise that not only has an online presence died, but also………
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