No. It’s not my will. I don’t have a will. I should have a will but right now I don’t have one. What I’m talking about is what to do with all the “online” stuff I have when I’m gone.
Let’s face it. I’m not planning on dying anytime soon, but if tomorrow a piano were to fall out of the sky and land on me, what would happen to all of the online “stuff” that is me. Think about it. If you died, what would happen to all your Facebook photos and posts? Your Twitter tweets? Blog posts? Emails? What happens to all of that stuff when you die.
If you don’t make a plan for it, it all just sort of stays out there and eventually would die on it’s own I suppose. For me, I am being a bit more proactive about it and taking things into my own hands.
For example, I have several different websites. If I died, would Tamara know what to do about them? How to take them down or who to talk to? Maybe, maybe not. What happens to Bobsroom.com when I kick the bucket?
How about the countless amounts of emails I have saved? In clicking the “All Mail” link I have in my Gmail account, it lists 1,337 messages and this doesn’t include all of the back-to-back replies from messages. There’s a lot of email in there.
What happens to all of that stuff when you are gone? Well, I may not be able to get a handle on everything, but I have at least put together the basics of what I want done, how to log into certain things, usernames, passwords, and a bunch of that stuff that Tamara, or any next of kin, probably doesn’t know about.
No, I’m not expecting to die anytime soon. Just thinking about something that should be done, just in case.
Do you care what happens to your “digital presence” when you die?
