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Friday, 16 December 2011

What happens online when you die

This video made me chuckle (well may be more of a morbid cackle) as I was only wondering this very fact the other day: what happens to your online world, when your physical one comes to an end?

There's a whole lifetime's worth of you sitting on a virtual cloud. While your physical belongings might be carefully packaged up and perhaps sent to the charity shop, who packs away your Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin laundry – not to mention any other 'items' drifting around in cyberspace?   

I guess if you have time to get your affairs in order, you could spend a few days closing down your online self. That or leave the passwords behind to make it easier for others to disconnect you once you're gone. 

Or as this video suggests – maybe you let the online world re-create a virtual you in the future, turning all your information into a hologram. It could become a very different way of haunting people. Well, why bother doing it yourself, when you could get your cyber self to do it.