The Online Social Leaders (Collage by Ranjit)
Hat’s off to Shail Raghuvanshi for that thought-provoking article on online legacies. With this article you have brought forth an important question among all of us—Netizens of the World!
What will happen to our online identities after our death?
Almost all us have at least an email account. A few lakhs among us might be having a social networking profile on Orkut, Facebook or Twitter. A few thousands might also be richer by a blog or two at Blogspot or WordPress!
So where will these identities end up in after we quit from the mundane world? After we cease to exist both offline and online?
Shouldn’t these online sites have a provision for their users to enable them to choose their successors?
Here also, we know that many of us might never want to bequeath any online wealth to our successors simply because our wealth won’t be palatable enough to our spouses, sons and daughters! After all, how can we reveal our highly objectionable, anonymous online exchanges (interactions between a dishonest father and his illegitimate daughter, dialogue between an unfaithful husband and his second wife or correspondence between an online street Romeo and an unflinching, helpless girl)?
What about a mechanism (a dozen of tick boxes perhaps!) to choose between the clean part and the censurable moiety?
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