justplainbil

Just Plain Bill

Internet Eternal Life

Once again, I received a message on LinkedIn reporting on an anniversary of a departed friend. I’ve read several articles on the fact that once you become part of an Internet site, you are a permanent part of that site, unless you’ve designated someone as your representative, complete with your passwords, to “take you down” electronically. In other words, the site becomes a permanent part of your legacy.

If you’re like most people, we don’t spend much time or thought on the fact that our life will end, perhaps sooner than we’ve planned. Since it’s hard to imagine the amount of Internet “space” we each take up with our messages, pictures or other entries, it probably doesn’t make much difference that once you’re “on line”, you have eternal Internet life.

Food for thought, for sure, but I’m making sure my wife has all my passwords so that I can have a respectful end to the bits and bytes that I so faithfully maintain.

So, once again, I’ll respond to my departed’s anniversary message by saying, “she’ll be missed”, and await the same anniversary message next year.