[LINK] 'How and Why You Should Write a Social Media Will'

[Roger Clarke]

>Roger Clarke wrote:
>>  At 11:54 +0000 6/5/12, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>>>  http://www.usa.gov
>>>   'How and Why You Should Write a Social Media Will'
>>>  Social media is a part of daily life, but what happens to the online
>>>  content that you created once you die?
>>  This is based on the premise that individual social media services 
>>will last more than a few years.  Whereas, in reality, each of them 
>>is just a fad (fun, advertising, death).

At 12:17 +1000 7/5/12, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>While the method of data collection may be a fad...the data 
>collected is very valuable and I doubt it will be mislaid.

There are a few sites that maintain graveyard-lists of withdrawn 
services.  They include some once-popular ones, and more are destined 
for the same fate.

Much as I knock Google, one of the things it's got right is talking 
the talking, and I gather to a considerable extent *walking* the 
talk, about data-export.  So at least that small proportion of people 
who actively set out to extricate a copy of (what was once *their*) 
content from Google have adecent chance of doing so.

But what are all the other services like?

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