4. Social media & memorialisation
• When a user passes away, their account is “memorialised”
• Only confirmed “friends” can see the timeline
• “friends” can leave posts in remembrance
• Also prevents anyone from logging into the account
5.
6.
7. B: Privacy and Property
1. What do I actually own?
2. Should I delete it?
3. Or should I give It away?
14. email
You agree that your Yahoo! account is non-
transferable and any rights to your Yahoo! ID or
contents within your account terminate upon
your death
19. Google inactive account manager (or
‘death manager’)
Time period (6-12 months)
Notify contacts and share data (up to 10 people)
Delete everything!
21. Repurposing content
‘New tools to support repurposing content should be considered
Technology Heirlooms’ - memories of loved ones cherished through
uses of technology (Kirk & Banks 2008)
Kirk, D. and Banks, R. 2008. On the Design of Technology Heirlooms. International
Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech’08).
23. Pending issues
There are significant inconsistencies and ad-hoc
arrangements on institutions deal with death
and the internet
The importance of creating personal digital
archives is not well established in the popular
imagination (nor products for re-purposing
content)
Protocols and practices of bequeathing digital
assets (ie. digital wills) not well established
