In the event of your demise, do you have someone with access to all of your passwords and instructions for what they should do with your accounts? Some services allow you to download and preserve your data (e.g. Google, Facebook) or have a special designation where another user can take control of your account if you die (e.g. Facebook, Twitter).
But do you have a plan for other aspects of your online life like TMMAC or whatever gaming platform you use? I personally would like to pass my 92% completion of GTA 5 to my son and probably submit my Twitter accounts to the Library of Congress.
@peter_weyland is the only one with most of my passwords so hopefully he outlives me.
In a Facebook group I was part of, we had to kick a member after his death because we had no idea who had taken control of his account after he died and they would post random things on his account from time to time. We still don't know how much that person knows about us. Hopefully they don't keep spreadsheets like some creeps. Facebook has at times been difficult with people wanting their deceased relatives accounts deactivated because there's sometimes nothing worse than getting a birthday or friendship length reminder in your notifications when you're halfway through the grieving process.
Will you exercise a right to be forgotten and request everything be deleted? There are services that will do this for you, but they function as a deadman's switch that you have to check in on either weekly or monthly.
Sorry for the morbid New Year's thoughts, but I just got a notification from FB for a friendaversary for someone who recently passed so it was on my mind. @Splinty
@Wild please compile a Best of John2054 art installation when he crosses the wrong dude in the pen.
But do you have a plan for other aspects of your online life like TMMAC or whatever gaming platform you use? I personally would like to pass my 92% completion of GTA 5 to my son and probably submit my Twitter accounts to the Library of Congress.
@peter_weyland is the only one with most of my passwords so hopefully he outlives me.In a Facebook group I was part of, we had to kick a member after his death because we had no idea who had taken control of his account after he died and they would post random things on his account from time to time. We still don't know how much that person knows about us. Hopefully they don't keep spreadsheets like some creeps. Facebook has at times been difficult with people wanting their deceased relatives accounts deactivated because there's sometimes nothing worse than getting a birthday or friendship length reminder in your notifications when you're halfway through the grieving process.
Will you exercise a right to be forgotten and request everything be deleted? There are services that will do this for you, but they function as a deadman's switch that you have to check in on either weekly or monthly.
Sorry for the morbid New Year's thoughts, but I just got a notification from FB for a friendaversary for someone who recently passed so it was on my mind. @Splinty
@Wild please compile a Best of John2054 art installation when he crosses the wrong dude in the pen.
