digital legacy

Posthumous internet presence

Digital legacy refers to the digital assets, accounts, and online presence a person leaves behind after death.

This includes social media profiles, email accounts, photos, documents, cryptocurrency, and any other data stored online or on devices.

Managing digital legacy has become a concern as people accumulate significant portions of their lives in digital form: She designated someone to handle her digital legacy in her will.

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inheritance · passwords · memories · accounts · archive · social media · terms of service · posthumous · cloud · storage · photos · virtual · estate · testament · dead man's switch · trace · immortality · profile

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medium/format

digital legacyfamily heirlooms

Inherited objects with sentimental value

antiques · real property · photo albums · handwritten letters

temporal persistence

digital legacylink rot

URLs becoming invalid over time

bit rot · disappearing messages

intentionality/purpose

digital legacydigital footprint

Traceable internet activity history

Family

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