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Your Digital Legacy - What will happen to it?

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Your Digital Legacy - What will happen to it?

Post by boatbuilder » Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:42 pm

Have you thought about what will happen to your 'Digital Life' should anything happen unexpectedly?

This article is worth a read and may get you thinking and possibly 'doing'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32151999
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Post by frankiesays » Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:16 am

I see a good opportunity for a memorial site where this sort of stuff can be moved to. I'm surprised nobody has done it already, I expect there will be lot to be made out of advertising to those who visit their lost friends and loved ones which is likely to be the prime reason for spending money on creating such a thing. Maybe the people who set up Friends Reunited for non-profit reasons should take a look at the issue? If it works it can be sold on to "big business" although Friends Reunited seemed to die a death after it followed that route - no pun intended.
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Post by boatbuilder » Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:40 am

frankiesays wrote: If it works it can be sold on to "big business" although Friends Reunited seemed to die a death after it followed that route - no pun intended.

If I remember rightly, it was ITV who originally bought the Friends Reunited site then eventually sold it on again.
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Post by funkychick » Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:31 pm

no one goes on FR you never here about it now I looked on it out of interest the other day and I think it was 3 years since anyone on my pages had posted
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Post by Mel » Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:18 pm

boatbuilder wrote:Have you thought about what will happen to your 'Digital Life' should anything happen unexpectedly?
Thankfully I don't have a notable digital life, the majority of my life is in the real world so I am quite happy for all my bytes to bite the dust when I pass onto the next stage...hopefully that will be reincarnation; and all being well reincarnated into a dolphin.
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Post by boatbuilder » Mon Apr 27, 2015 1:49 pm

I thought this topic would be a good place to post this article which certainly raises some interesting points and gives some serious 'food for thought':

Does the digital era herald the end of history?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32315449
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Post by frankiesays » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:42 pm

I wonder if an electromagnetic pulse could reach far underground? If not maybe the digital archives should be based in underground caverns just in case? I don't know how an EMP works, if it travels along cables the archive would need to be static rather than "online".
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