Taking Your Digital Life with You (celebrate, relatives, gift, friends)

[OldSchoolEverything]

I wonder about forum members' attitudes about leaving personal papers, diaries, letters around when they shake off their earthly coil. I'm not talking about paper documents, which I destroyed long ago. I'm talking about non-encrypted digital files.

Just a heads-up if you're a privacy-freak. Encrypted storage is your friend.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolEverything

I wonder about forum members' attitudes about leaving personal papers, diaries, letters around...
I'm not talking about paper documents, which I destroyed long ago.

That's a real shame.

I'm talking about non-encrypted digital files.

Care to offer an example of what you wouldn't want your family to see?

[OldSchoolEverything]

Originally Posted by MrRational

That's a real shame.
Care to offer an example of what you wouldn't want your family to see?

All the love letters I never sent to the Monkees, the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five, and… Oh yes, Bobby Sherman

[jrkliny]

If it is worth keeping, polish the work and publish it at least as a blurb book for friends and relatives.

[OldSchoolEverything]

Loves that ‘t’weren’t meant to be… is not the subject of this thread.

[BOBNCHI]

It's not digitized, but a Farrah Fawcett poster still hangs in the garage. Anyone is welcome to it when I go.

[OldSchoolEverything]

Hey, old folks for whom this thread is intended! Scanners are your friend.

Celebrate the holidays by playing with your (future) survivors' minds! Scan and encrypt everything except the gift cards you intend to leave them. Be like Lord Byron! Only without the use of a blazing hearth in the Highlands!

MY NEW SIGNATURE: "LOVE AN OLD PERSON! HELP STOP THREAD DRIFT!"

[PAhippo]

After I'm gone I don't care who knows what.

Have at it, everyone.



Someone might figure out I like hippos, quilt, and eat more chocolate than I should.




Maybe my new signature should be: this was me!

[harry chickpea]

The idea of someone wasting time trying to spam me or argue with me long after I'm gone has a macabre humor to it. I've seen the latter with people arguing eternal members on the forum.

"We have been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty..."

[Jkgourmet]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolEverything

All the love letters I never sent to the Monkees, the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five, and… Oh yes, Bobby Sherman

If you're a closeted guy man, then maybe destroying them is a good idea.

If not, those keepsakes are likely to produce a smile on the faces of your children, grandchildren etc. Probably AFTER they get on the internet to find out who those old facts are/were.