Social media has changed the way we live. Now it is changing death too. I’ve seen the facebook status posts that say “When I die, friends will go to my funeral, good friends will cry at my funeral, but my best friend will change my facebook status to ‘Chillin with Jesus’.” Well now your best friend won’t have to because you can now be prepared for death in the digital age. LifeEnsured is preparing people for specifically that. This service allows people to control what happens to their accounts. From beyond the grave you can control what happens to your facebook for example. You can have you facebook deactivated, disable wall posts, change everything to past tense and even post a final status. This service is offered for over 30 online services, including Facebook, Twitter and WordPress. You won’t have to worry about your digital information living on forever. LifeEnsured gets notified either by the Social Security Administration or your confidants who are people you select to notify LifeEnsured of your death. LifeEnsured will take care of anything from your match.com profile to transfer of ownership of your PayPal account to who controls your email. You can send out a final email and other various changes to any of your online accounts. This is a way of protecting all your digital information in a time where almost everything we do is documented online. There are different types of plans offered, some of which are free and an unlimited service is priced at $300.
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Everything that can happen in your life has and will happen, even the things you never imagined. Whoever came up with this idea of dealing with our virtual accounts after death has made some people sleep easier at night. This is the last thing I would ever think about while alive. I’m surprisingly not shocked to read about this LifeEnsured. This seems to be one of those things that people secretly think about but don’t talk about publicly. If I had a friend who asked about what will happen to their Twitter and Facebook after death, I would look at them like they are crazy. This is not something that immediately comes to mind when a person is planning for their future and planning what to do with their assets. I guess the more technology that is at our grasp the more things we have to plan for in the future. This is one way to have all your basis covered. I do think it’s an interesting idea because I sure never thought about this before now. I think of this as a digital will.
However, there are more important things in life than a Facebook page or a profile on match.com. This shouldn’t be the first thing on your mind when you think about death and/or dying. Well at least that’s my opinion. I’m pretty sure I can find a bunch of people who oppose my view on this matter. But then again those people probably eat, sleep, and live on social media sites.
I agree with what dfrias mentions. I never really thought about what would happen to all my Internet accounts after my death. There are many other things we need to deal with now, I find it awkward to think of what I want my last status update to be after I pass. Also I find it kind of depressing to think of my last statement. I wonder how many people have signed up for this service.
This is probably a good business plan. With a society that relies so much on social media and have multiple accounts all ever the Internet, they can probably get revenue from websites and consumers.
This isn’t the most innovative idea but it is most definitely not the most useless ones either. It’s good to have options. I’m constantly find out about new things we can go online, and it sometimes amazes me how far we’ve come.