Digital Death – What Happens Online When You Die

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Every day we are filling the Internet with portions of our lives. The data of every status update, blog post, image, video and email is floating around the internet. Have you ever wondered what happens to all that data once we pass?

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What Happens Online When You Die?

Lets say you represent an average person on this globe.

There is an 11% chance that you have a Facebook account.
With this account you share 450 pieces of content each year including 114 photos. That is 29 traditional photo albums in your entire life.

In your lifetime you will have spent 23 minutes a day on Twitter and have sent 15,795 tweets. You will have checked in on Foursquare 563 times, uploaded 196 hours of video on Youtube

Currently 70% of the online population are using social networks. And this number is still growing. The one thing that the 1.1 billion people currently on social networks have in common is that they are all going to die.

In fact Three FB users die every minute, at that rate… A total of 1.78 million FB users died in 2011.

Do you know what happens to your digital life when you die?

Gmail can send your next of kin all your emails and contacts on request. And so can Hotmail. Twitter can give your next of kin a copy of all your public tweets.

Do you have any digital dirty laundry you should be worried about?

All the data you have stored in the cloud belongs to the individual platform provider and they might use it.. one day to resurrect your digital self or perhaps even create a living clone or hologram of you that could interact with future generations..

Personality predictors already exist such as ‘that can be my next tweet’ and ‘Hunch’ that can make certain predictions based on your social media data.

With Life Naut you can build a mind file of almost your entire life experience. .

Where do you see your digital self in 100 years?

On Facebook, MySpace? Obama’s Got Your E-mail

White House spammer-in-chief wants contractor to track critics

The White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.

The National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, revealed the White House New Media team is seeking to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House “maintains a presence” – for a period of up to eight years.

“The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP (Executive Office of the President) on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA (Presidential Records Act) maintains a presence,” the posting states.

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Obama’s Strange Strategy: Borrow Foreign Money to Give to Foreign Countries

Sarah Palin gets it and more importantly, she’s not afraid to tell it like it is.

We need a leader like that.

Should we be borrowing money from China to turn around and give it to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Given that we are running massive deficits and are drowning in more than $14 trillion in debt, and despite not knowing who will rule Egypt until its election this fall, this strange strategy may be the end result given President Obama’s announcement that he is committing $2 billion to Egypt’s “new government.” It’s part of a $20 billion foreign aid package laid out with the Group of 8 countries in Europe today.

Now, given that Egypt has a history of corruption when it comes to utilizing American aid, it is doubtful that the money will really help needy Egyptian people. Couple that with the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is organized to have a real shot at taking control of Egypt’s government, and one has to ask why we would send money (that we don’t have) into unknown Egyptian hands?

Throwing borrowed money around is not sound economic policy. And throwing borrowed money around the developing world is not sound foreign policy. Foreign assistance should go to American allies that need it and appreciate it, and for humanitarian purposes when it can truly make a difference.

Considering the Obama Administration’s continued strange strategies on the economy and foreign policy has us counting down the days to the next election. November 2012 can’t come soon enough.

– Sarah Palin

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