Danger, digital

Internet immortality

Death is inevitable for all of us. What happens to your online data when you’re gone?

03 June 2013

Like gravity, taxes and seasonal flu, death is a reality each of us has to face at some point or another. It’s a rather ghoulish element of life as we know it. Ultimately, we all succumb to our own mortality.

Similarly, most of us also yield to the voyeuristic appeal of social media. With over one billion active users, Facebook houses the majority of the developed world’s daily experiences, activities and thoughts. Twitter’s five hundred million followers eagerly update their own digital micro diaries as the day progresses – information made available for public consumption at your leisure.

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