Recently we have been researching what happens to a persons online identity after they are dead. Many people, including my self, do not consider what will happen to their online identity after they die. An online identity is the imprint you leave on the internet, whether a social network profile, blog, or things like that. The major question is, what will happen to it when I'm gone?
There were many videos and article we watched, such as After you're final status update, and cyber space when you're dead. In this we learned of stories of people who had died, and what had happened to their online identity. One person i read about was Mac Tonnie, of posthuman blues. After he died, his blog was left, unchanged, so others could view it. People also made memorial pages, such as Post-Mac Blues. As you can see, an online identity lives on, and never truly dies. However, many have a problem with it. Some want laws that will decide the fate of someone online identity. Others want an identity to be untouched. There are also the people who wish the fate of an online identity is left to family.
In my opinion, the online identity should be left untouched, or for the family to decide. I do not really care what would happen to my online identity, for one major reason. I'm dead. It would not matter, nor would it affect me. All i ask for, is that people would remember me for how i was
