Yahoo Answers is shutting down on 4 May 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

What do you want done with your social media sites after you die?

Social networking sites are having to devise policies to deal with the death of a user - and some are getting it more right than others

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/07/s...

5 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    It would make sense to describe what you want your friends or family to do in your will. Include your user names and passwords for FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, FriendFeed, Orkut, LiveJournal, Bebo etc so that people can follow your wishes.

    Whether you choose to delete the accounts completely, or allow others to post memorial messages is up to you, but for the first time in human history we have a digital legacy that will out-live us.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Because people are able to see who you are before they talk to you , physical attraction is still the first thing people notice so by hitting someone up on one of these sites and they see in their inbox a message from someone who's looks aren't up to their standards some people won't even bother to try to form even a friendship with them . And most of the internet users aren't interested in having real connections with strangers which is why some social sites are just like that people use them to escape their reality which is strange because social sites are just anti social platforms that make people comfortable than realistic settings like a coffee house or school .

  • Allora
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I would want my pages to be deleted. They should probably stay up for a month or two so people can pay their respects, then be removed. How devasating for my friends and family to see my page say 'no recent activity' or receive a spam email from a phisher who has hacked into the account. It would be awful. Having the account open would be like keeping a room the way they left it. It might take a few months to go into their room but eventually you have to take their clothes out of the closet, throw away or distribute their possessions and move on. Leaving it there furthers the grief.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ill have someone go onto said sites everyday, and post a message saying "Look, Im dead, stop sending me requests to join your group"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I could not care less, I will not be around.

Still have questions? Get answers by asking now.