When you're long dead and gone...

[cogito]

...will your emails, texts, Facebook, tweeting, forum activity be a source for future generations in the way that old letters, diaries, notebooks now are for the living checking on the past ??

[Ed O'Gorman]

I very much doubt it.

[cogito]

I very much doubt it.

That they'll be able to Ed...or that they'll be bothered ?

Existing and future generations are going to be leaving very few paper trails - do you not think that future genealogists or curious family members will be trawling through electronic data and media for information about their ancestors ?

[Mykidsmom]

I doubt it cogs...they'll have invented a whole new way of communication soon and you can bet this as we use it now will be obsolete but im sure some of our stuff will still exist....somewhere

[boxman]

Interesting question and one that some clever people are making money from. There are companies out there offering cloud storage guaranteed forever. Not sure how you check if they follow through though.

[cogito]

I doubt it cogs...they'll have invented a whole new way of communication soon and you can bet this as we use it now will be obsolete but im sure some of our stuff will still exist....somewhere

Typewriters are obsolete... that doesn't prevent us from reading typed pages.

[quinner]

Interesting question and one that some clever people are making money from. There are companies out there offering cloud storage guaranteed forever. Not sure how you check if they follow through though.

History to suit the readers...?

[cogito]

Interesting question and one that some clever people are making money from. There are companies out there offering cloud storage guaranteed forever. Not sure how you check if they follow through though.

I suppose if you make sure they're paid forever they'll store it forever...

[quinner]

If the world population keeps increasing as it is now......people wont be worried where they came from......they will be too concerned about where they are going.....

[boxman]

It will be interesting for future historian to read all our likes, lols and roflmaos. Might have livened up Pepys a bit

[quinner]

I suppose everybody will have their own copy of the worlds census returns for the past few hundred years.........

[cogito]

It will be interesting for future historian to read all our likes, lols and roflmaos. Might have livened up Pepys a bit

True enough '..... great, great, great granduncle Horace was a pioneering internet troll back in the early 21st century...'

[cosmo]

will that mean tales about moderators will be just to scare the future kids to stay in their holograms at night.

[quinner]

Will God take advantage of the Sin Bin on judgement day......

[cogito]

Cursory check of Facebook policy in this area reveals...

When you create an account the data (text/images) is there... forever.

If you de-activate that account the data will still remain.... forever.

If you delete the account the data will typically disappear within 90 days.

In the scenario that you kicked the bucket in the morning - and no one knew your account details - then I suppose your account with its contents will simply sit there indefinitely.