Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy?
- By Evan Carroll, John Romano
- Published Nov 15, 2010 by New Riders. Part of the Voices That Matter series.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 7" x 9"
- Pages: 216
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-73228-6
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-73228-6
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Product Author Bios
John Romano and Evan Carroll are the founders of TheDigitalBeyond.com, a leading online resource that explores death and digital legacy. As researchers and speakers, they are devoted to helping individuals secure their digital assets for posterity. Their work has been covered by CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Obit Magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, and The Austin Chronicle. With backgrounds in design and information science, together they have over twenty years’ experience making the web a more useful and enjoyable place.
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Almost without realizing it, we have shifted toward an all-digital culture. Future heirlooms like family photos, home movies, and personal letters now exist only in digital form, and in many cases they are stored using popular services like Flickr, YouTube, and Gmail. These digital possessions form a rich collection that chronicles our lives and connects us to each other. But have you considered what will happen to your treasured digital possessions when you die?
Unfortunately the answer isn’t as certain as we might presume. There are numerous legal, cultural, and technical issues that could
prevent access to these assets, and if you don’t take steps to make them available to your heirs, your digital legacy could be lost forever.
Written by the creators of TheDigitalBeyond.com, this book helps you secure your valuable digital assets for your loved ones and
perhaps posterity. Whether you’re the casual email user or the hyper-connected digital dweller, you’ll come away with peace of
mind knowing that your digital heirlooms won’t be lost in the shuffle.
“Death is the final frontier of cyberspace—and this book provides a road map to the key issues, problems and future prospects for bridging this ultimate transition with dignity, security and grace.”
— Daniel “Dazza” Greenwood, Executive Director of the eCitizen Foundation
“To be ahead of one’s time usually means stepping to the side of one’s time in order to see it clearly. This book does just that, putting our digital lives and afterlives into sharp focus. Fascinating.”
— David Eagleman, neuroscientist and author
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
An aspect of your "estate" that most people haven't considered..., By
This review is from: Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy? (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
So what happens to your digital self when you die? Your email, blog, Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook accounts? It's not something you hear talked about very much, but there could be personal and historical value lost if those accounts die along with you. Our parents and grandparents passed down photos and letters to us, but what if all of those photos and letters are now on Flickr and in email? Evan Carroll covers this topic in his book Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy?, and it's a fascinating read.Contents: Introducing the Digital Afterlife Your Digital Life Death, and Beyond: The Shift to Digital; A Well-Lived (Digital) Life; The Artifacts of Your Life; The Value of Digital Things; What You Leave Behind; The Opportunity of Digital Legacy; Your Legacy at Risk; The Birth of an Industry Securing Your Digital Legacy: Before You Begin; Computers and Devices; Email; Social Websites; Finance and... Read more
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Quintessential Resource for Estate Planning in the Digital Age,
This review is from: Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy? (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
Anyone considering making or in the process of creating a will in honor of Make a Will Month should get this book and explore the additional resources that Carroll and Romano have provided beyond their careful tour of your digital life. The authors take an honest and easily digestible look at the complex digital world. Not only do they examine the current situation of individuals amassing a constantly-growing collection of digital assets, but they simply it and walk you though ways to evaluate your options for the future. It's simple to recognize that we had no need to consider the preservation of our digital assets in the (not so distant) past. They didn't exist until recently, but in many cases, like digital photography, we want to be able to pass along these precious memories and records to the future generations - much in the same way you may have inherited the cherished family photo album. But what you may not realize, and what the authors illustrate, is that some of your digital...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A very rare gift for making difficult things intelligible, By
This review is from: Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy? (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
Where all assets were once physical, except for lingering memories, now they are increasingly digital. The most obvious examples are letters, documents, music and photos. There's more.This book is full of thoughtful, intelligent insights."Will future generations have less attachment to physical objects?" What an interesting idea. Physical objects are unique, but "one of the unique features of digital things is that two exact copies can exist or one copy can be accessed in multiple places at one time." Had we only physical assets, they'd be divvied up, some thrown away, and our identity fragmented. Digital assets can be bequeathed complete - to more than just one person. The law presently regards assets only as physical assets. How do we make sure these endure? Your Digital Afterlife wants to persuade us of the necessity so, first, it makes the case. Our digital assets are identity-defining: "All this content forms a rich collection that reflects who... Read more |
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Your Digital Afterlife: The Artifacts of Your Life
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1. Introducing the Digital Afterlife
Your Digital Life, Death, and Beyond
2. The Shift to Digital
3. A Well-Lived (Digital) Life
4. The Artifacts of Your Life
5. The Value of Digital Things
6. What You Leave Behind
7. The Opportunity of Digital Legacy
8. Your Legacy at Risk
9. The Birth of an Industry
10. Before You Begin
11. Computers and Devices
12. Email
13. Social Websites
14. Finance and Commerce
15. Create Your Plan
Epilogue: The Future of Digital Death
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