You're going to die. What will happen to your online life? | Jed R. Brubaker | TEDxMileHigh

These days, social media pervades every aspect of our lives. Our Facebook messages, tweets, Instagram posts are more than just data – they’re our identities, our life stories. So what happens to our online lives when we die? Unfortunately, many tech companies don’t have a solution. Scholar & researcher Jed R. Brubaker does.

[chiaradev]

It scares me and fascinate me at the same time: I will not have privacy even after my death but, on the other hand, I'll be in a certain way immortal.

[unleashingpotential-psycho]

The scary thing is that when we die, all the information we put online will always be there for the world to see. There is no privacy anymore with the internet.

[onewomanslife]

This should be motivation for us to ensure that we are doing good things for humanity.
Your great grandchildren will read your postings and know what kind of person you are right now.

[treasuretrails]

They better not delete this comment after I die, this is my legacy!

[mhtinla]

It's arrogant to assume companies like Facebook or Google will last forever. It's quite the opposite, in this digital age. In the early 2000's, I was an early adopter of a photo sharing site (before the term "social media" was coined) and deposited lots of photos there. That site was taken over by another and later scratched and I lost all my photos.

[thegoforitgirl]

This is the most American tedx talk I have ever watched.
My family and close friends don't care about my social media now or when I'm dead, and I want that stuff deleated.

[vikramsrinivasan]

The problem is "We are attaching emotions to machines". We need to learn to "live without"

[NazwaBricksZajeta]

I don't care because I'm gonna be dead, remember? The bugs will eat my rotting body

[djmorgan]

All i care for is for someone to quickly to make a google watch that detects that i have died and it erases my Chrome browser instantly.

[darkphilosopher]

I am so glad that I don't care about whether or not I am remembered or how long or what light I am remembered in. When I die, folks can toss my body in a ditch and make jokes about how glad they are that they don't have to put up with all my talking anymore, basically the same thing goes for the internet. It isn't that I have a grim outlook on my own death, it is just that I don't care how I am remembered as I will eventually be forgotten no matter how I am remembered.

[YorkshireD]

Easy. Just don't use social media. Lived without it before and will live without it now.

[Scratchci]

To me it is actually heart breaker. I will not exist but the things that I said, shared will still be on internet as if I am alive.

[zachthinkshare]

This is great! I'm updating my legacy contact right now! I've thought of creating a video to keep private until I die and have my wife publish on youtube when I die as my final message.

[duraticatereef]

What a great show! I was there in the audience! Thank you TEDx for being awesome and sharing amazing people

[Ivan_N_]

Just don't die ok? Be careful and live before you don't need any social network.

[thehobbystreamer]

He forgets that there is a lot of tech things we do that ashame us. When we die, our families see that as they make those galleries and memorialize our texts

[rachelg.]

This is exactly what I was thinking about a couple of years ago I’m glad someone’s doing research and analysis stayed on it

[painexotic]

I don't have an online life. Yes, I have a youtube and post on youtube but there is no way to connect it back to my real identity. I recognize the importance of anonymity.

[gamer-brov]

It is scarry to think that I will not know that myself and my loved ones ever lived. What's therefor to hide while we live!!

[salahsanad]

Let's see, first time to wach a speech after just of a few minutes of its release