After we die, someone is going to have to do something with any of our social medias accounts and blogs. But, what should be done about it and who has the rights to decide what to do?
Many people have different opinions, but here are mine:
I think that if the deceased person wants something done, then whoever is taking care of their blog should do whatever that person would have wanted. If they didn't mention it, however, I think their family has a right to decide what to do. They can have the choice of making their account public, deleting it, or archiving it and saving it to a computer.
"The most prominent place this issue has come up, not surprisingly, is Facebook. For some time now, it has offered an option to request that a profile be switched to “memorial” mode when an individual dies."-Cyberspace When You're Dead, NY Times.
I agree with the idea of having different options on what to do. The memorial mode is a very good idea, and it should be used for all social media. It gives an option, so nothing is forced, but it gives that option of choosing whether or not the deceased should have a public profile.
"'I only ever knew him over Twitter,' Sarah Cashmore , a graduate student in Toronto, told me. She shared his enthusiasm for design and technology and learned of his death from Twitter contacts. 'I was actually devastated,' she says."-Cyberspace When You're Dead, NY Times. People now days meet people through the internet, and make good friendships, like in the case of Sarah. This is important because when someone dies, the only way that friend, who could live very far away from the person who died, can grieve and remember them. So, that is another reason to have the option to save the content a deceased person has posted: so long-distance friends can look back and see their friends account/blog.
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