*pffffft**Psst!* Danny! EN World *is* social media!
You're a mod so you know- as social media goes, places like this are pretty anti-social. There are ham sandwich Facebook pages with more traffic than ENWorld.
*pffffft**Psst!* Danny! EN World *is* social media!
My will is already in order and the appropriate people have the right information. But I'm a responsable person with education and some money at my disposal. The people who do not have/can't afford a will are the ones who will not have an electronic will.
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You're a mod so you know- as social media goes, places like this are pretty anti-social. There are ham sandwich Facebook pages with more traffic than ENWorld.
Yeah, well, a Smartcar's got a puny little engine, but it is still a car, dude. Try to argue to the cop who pulls you over that you shouldn't get a ticket in one because you're not *really* driving.
Does your jurisdiction recognize wills in wholly electronic form? Some probate systems will take video, but PDFs and the like are not quite acceptable everywhere.
I'm in Texas- those things are legally considered rollerskates. People use them as riding mowers and some of our malls rent them out as mobility scooters.
Frankly, for future generations, and I mean centuries from now, Facebook could have unprecedented archeological value. Pics of clothes, hairstyles, food, what people actually talked about and the words they use, the news, etc, could be accessable to historians.
Just for that, I sort of do not have objections to Facebook keeping those dead accounts around.
that would certainly be useful.
I think a key problem is whether FB will be around (or its data) in some capacity 100 years from now.
As the XKCD article points out, web sites don't last. Remember Web Crawler? Alta Vista? GeoCities?
Where are those GeoCities sites now? That last is important, because if somebody doesn't archive the data, once the company is done, the site comes down and the hard drives get trashed.
Sure, the Internet Archive project might catch a copy of the site, but given that your not supposed to see profiles unless you are a friend or an idiot with bad privacy settings, external parties can't see your stuff to snag a copy.