DIGITAL WILL

A of : FT13259 Prashant Mishra| prashantmishra.infoFT13295 Abhash Nigam | abhashnigam.in FT13330 Guneet Gyani | guneetgyani.comFT13376 Soumya Sinha | soumyasinha.infoFT13419 Bindu Nandigama| bindunandigama.com

What is a digital will ? The digital equivalent of a written will, traditionally written and held by a lawyer.

What happens when you are dead?Jeff Lutz’s grandfather's wife, Laurel Lutz, passed away in 2011. Her side of the family must have continued to operate Laurel's Facebook page because Lutz said he continued to see updates and Likes."In the first week after Laurel passed, a note went on her Facebook wall thanking her family via various inside jokes and drinking references," he says. "In the weeks that followed, Likes of Dunkin' Donuts began to appear, alongside checking in at various locations. The real topper was a 2011 halloween profile image change to her face digitized on a pumpkin."

• if i die is another example of socked-away messages, but the company's Facebook app has a different way of appealing to users. Both if i die and DeadSoci.al advertise their companies as a way to stay connected in the afterlife, but if i die extends  the opportunity for world fame: When you sign up, you can make a message for the world. 

• _LivesOn takes it a step further. It's advertising as a tool to tweet for you in your afterlife.

Social Media Beyond The Grave

Current Providers:http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/online-services-list/

Current Social Media NormsLike all creative products, literary works, research notes, photographs, etc, that are created online will pass on to the legal heir of the deceased.

•Facebook- It gives friends and relatives the option of memorialising a deceased person's account. By Memorialising an account sets the account privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. Friends and family can leave posts in remembrance. It also prevents anyone from logging into the account. It does not divulge login details of the account, but "verified immediate family members" can request the removal of an account.

•LinkedIn &Twitter - Account shut if 'death verification form' or request submitted

•Flickr - Account is terminated and photographs and content permanently deleted if copy of death certificate is provided.

• YAHOO - Email accounts of Yahoo are automatically deleted if it stays dormat for over four months. Yahoo will also close the account if a copy of the death certificate is emailed.

• Orkut - Profile removed if death certificate is uploaded and an online form completed.

• PayPal- If death is reported, account will be closed and a cheque made out to the account holder is issued to the legal heir.

• eBay - All data of the user on the buy-sell website is deleted if death certificate is faxed to company.

• Google - Google says that in rare cases it "may be able to provide the Gmail account content to an authorised representative of the deceased user". But the post on Google Support adds that "any decision to provide the contents of a deceased user's email will be made only after a careful review, and the application to obtain email content is a lengthy process. 

Current Social Media Norms

DIGITAL WILL

A of : FT13259 Prashant MishraFT13295 Abhash Nigam FT13330 Guneet Gyani FT13376 Soumya Sinha FT13419 Bindu Nandigama