One of the downsides of social media is that when you die the social media doesn’t know you’re dead.

A very nice gentleman I knew died several years ago. he was a kind caring person. And it was nice having pleasant memories without the searing pain of his sudden death … And as time passed, his memory and his kindness also faded ..

But thanks to Social Media, I got to relive the entire experience again…

Unfortunately that person is dead.

So I remember the unpleasant bits, and I remember the pleasant bits. But for a moment he is alive again in my head…

He is… well… undead….

Which makes me think the decent thing is to buy into insurance that deletes your online presence, the selfish thing is to not do that and let Social Media periodically remind the world of your existence…

I have this very selfish idea that 1000 years from now, some social network will look at my ID, and say: You should connect to this person because he might be your ancestor… And my life as it’s recorded on the digital universe will come back again…