{"id":6059,"date":"2011-09-23T17:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2012-03-13T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T20:34:17","slug":"ted-talk-after-your-final-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2011\/09\/23\/ted-talk-after-your-final-status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Talk: After your final status update"},"content":{"rendered":"
The idea of preserving social media after our deaths seems creepy to me. But then I do<\/p>\n
“You can imagine what something like this will look like 5, 10, 20 years from now as our technical capabilities improve.” It seems like a ENORMOUS<\/strong> claim that a social media company will last 20 years. Today’s top social media companies were founded in…<\/p>\n
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Facebook: February 2004 (7 years old),<\/li>\n
Twitter: March 2006 (5 years old),<\/li>\n
LinkedIn: May 2003 (8 years old),<\/li>\n
Myspace:\u00c2\u00a0August 2003 (8 years old),<\/li>\n
Ning:\u00c2\u00a0October 2005 (6 years old)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The odds of any particular social network existing after a sophomore in high school student today graduates from college is low (chosen because that is about when COPPA starts). This is a fickle market space where users literally vote with their attention. Google is working on their third social network in 6 years. Why would we trust these sites when they seem likely doomed to have limited lifespan? But maybe it is only important to immortalize someone for only a few years?<\/p>\n
Introduction from TED site:<\/p>\n
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Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you’ve died? Could it … live on?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n