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The Final Status Update

I came across this awesome video on TED, which got me thinking…

 

What would be my final Facebook status update, my last blog, or my last tweet? Would I be on my death bed, hurriedly posting something with my wobbly hands? Something like…

Yeah, wait till I’m back in my next incarnation, I’ll settle scores with the 5 people who liked that!

Or maybe, people will start posting their wills online!  Hereby, I announce that XYZ will have all permissions to read, access and modify my blog, Facebook, Twitter, GMail, LinkedIn and Foursquare accounts so that I remain online in the virtual world, forever!

On a more serious note, as the guy in the video said, we are all leaving behind an unimaginable amount of data, stored and shared across the world wide web. And that data isn’t merely a digital combination of 0 and 1. It’s a plethora of thoughts and memories in the form of text, photos and videos; and in the larger sense, a legacy and a culture in it’s own right.
In a way, it is all probably good. My great great grand daughter will know what a jerk her great great grand dad was! :D

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