Something to think about . . . an excerpt from Wired, March 2010, p. 060:
Hamlet, that lucky stiff, only had to worry about being or not being--what a nice, binary Denmark he lived in. We modern mopes, on the other hand, must consider not only our too, too solid flesh but also our online infinitude: From banking to book-buying, from Facebook pages to busty Warcraft avatars to scrupulously Tubblr'd "bucket lists," we leave our silicon snakeskins scattered from here to tim.buk.tu. * * * Our local, carbon-based "hard drives" may fail, but vestiges of our inimitable selves will remain ambient and accessible long after we log off this mortal coil. This distributed deathlessness means we'll all need a little cleanup on Aisle Me. The aspects of life we archive online, be they valuable, heritable, or simply embarrassing, require posthumous management (and, in some cases, eradication) lest our friends and loved ones and executors be embarrassed or inconvenienced by our lingering digital detritus, a trash-strewn wake of left-behind liabilities.
Quirks and all, it was good fun!
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It's thoughts like these that keep me on the (semi) straight and narrow while I'm online.
Patty I loved this. Weren't you just looking through old letters scouring the past for just such materials left behind before the electronic age? Maybe this is why some people didn't save letters! But how sad, because those of us left to read the old letters learn so much from them. Hugs, Bunny
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