{"id":419,"date":"2009-07-09T20:47:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=419"},"modified":"2009-07-09T20:47:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:47:43","slug":"my-internet-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/my-internet-will\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 My Internet Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, I put more of my life online and less of my life is offline. I don&#8217;t keep a diary and I don&#8217;t have physical photos or video of my memories. Everything is stored on hard drives and on servers located across the world. When I die, the data I&#8217;ve created will be my legacy and this is why an Internet Will is important.<\/p>\n<p>Laura has a copy of this will and I will be sending a copy to my father as well. In the event of my death, they will open the envelope to reveal a thumb drive. This drive has a partition readable by Windows &amp; Mac and password protected with a code that only my family knows. I&#8217;d like to share the contents of this drive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A video that needs to be uploaded to YouTube or the popular video site of the time.<\/li>\n<li>A few photos to be used in my memorial (if I have one)<\/li>\n<li>A letter announcing my death with my final goodbyes<\/li>\n<li>Password to my blog, Twitter, Facebook, Google and other accounts to send my last &#8220;updates&#8221; of my death<\/li>\n<li>Bank account &amp; financial logins<\/li>\n<li>Passwords to nearly every single website. I generate this 25 page PDF once a month that contains passwords to every site I&#8217;m a member of. I try to keep this as up to date as possible.<\/li>\n<li>A document that says which of my electronics goes to which family member.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only things I own in life are my bicycle, clothing, kitchen utensils and my firearms. The rest of my belongings require electricity. I have computer, hard drives, speakers, monitors, phones &amp; more that are all considered &#8220;electronics&#8221; and I have all of these made out to someone in the event that I die. For example, my father gets my laptop and Laura gets my 30&#8243; Monitor and RAID Array of LaCie Drives.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that more people don&#8217;t do this. On average, I have friends spend 4 hours a day online. I spend about 10 hours a day physically in front of a computer so it makes sense that all of my memories and data I&#8217;ve generated online mean something to me even after death. I don&#8217;t want my Flickr album, Facebook status or blog to sit dormant after my death. It&#8217;s appropriate to have one last update, post or upload to have a bit of closure and I leave it to my family to carry out this act.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a Twitter profile or Flickr account, you already should have one of these Internet Wills and I hope one day there&#8217;s a service that lets me put all of this into an account (passwords, last blog post and video) so when I do die, a family member can click one button and announce my death. To those of you reading this that are confused and surprised, you&#8217;re probably in a different generation or you haven&#8217;t embraced &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; Internet lifestyle that I have.<\/p>\n<p>if you disagree keep your comments to yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every day, I put more of my life online and less of my life is offline. 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