I came across this interesting TED talk about what happens your social media profiles after you die recently.
It's something not a lot of people ever really think about but if you died tomorrow how long would your Facebook or Twitter profiles last and what kind of lasting memory would it leave of you?
I remember a few years ago when Bebo was still king I knew of a few people who died tragically young and I remember seeing all the messages left on their page in awful txt speak and it just didn't seem right. The setting and style of the messages just didn't seem appropriate.
On the other side of the coin a friend of mine passed away a little over a year ago. He was in his early thirties and was an extremely popular guy. In the few days after he died his Facebook profile turned into a collection of stories and memories people had about him. They were all really nice, funny and fond memories of the guy and I'm sure it would have been nice for his family to read, given that they probably hadn't heard a lot of them before.
Adam Ostrow looks at it from a slightly different but still rather interesting perspective in this Ted Talk.
It's something that we'll start to think about and discuss more and more as a generation of people who grew up on social networks begin the long walk towards the light.
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