Reading Notes "How to Say Goodbye in the Internet Age: From Live Farewells to Managing Digital Legacy"

●In the Internet age, some things may "live" longer than your body - your Facebook account (by 2099, there may be about 5 billion dead people who still have their faces book account!), blog, YouTube channel, and your online banking account and digital purchase history. These may involve legal inheritance issues. For example: Can our kids log into our Facebook account legally after we leave? Are Bitcoin Accounts Inheritable? At present, almost all laws and regulations in the world are based on the concept of property before the existence of the Internet, and the advent of the Internet generation has also caused a great impact on the law.

●Every day that the sun rises in the information age, there is one more day that "privacy" is thrown into the scorching crucible of civilization in the digital age: your privacy limit and mine are facing the most severe challenge day after day. In the online environment, the sophistication of "privacy" seems to take on another new state, its nature is constantly changing or distorted, and it is always inseparable from multi-party debate and scrutiny. For generations, the right to privacy and other human rights has been taken for granted, in law and in general perception, as the rights of "natural persons" (that is, living persons); once the last breath is taken, the deceased renounces the right to privacy, And they really don't need it anymore. The right to privacy is related to autonomy to some extent, and since everyone is dead, there is no such thing as "autonomy". But now, please find a few experts at will, regardless of the field, and let them try to give a clear answer to "Do dead people have the right to privacy?" Of course, you may first have to define what "death" is: is it "physical" or "social" death? Even with a definition, you could still get several different explanations for why the deceased had or did not have the right to privacy, all of which are plausible.

●When Freud wrote "Mourning and Depression" in 1917, he advocated a linear and staged process for how to resolve lost grief and say goodbye to the deceased. In many ways, Freud was a product of his time: on the subject of "grief," no matter how contrary his position was to his personal experience, it more or less presented the values of the Industrial Revolution as efficient and effective. A functional society, everyone's eyes are shining, and we continue to move towards a better, healthier and more prosperous life. Life belongs to the "living". As for the dead, please move to the suburbs or the countryside and stay behind the gate of the cemetery. We can think of the past 200 years as a long, gradual breakup of life and death (both physical space and mental state). But the situation has not changed in recent years, and it is not even the result of anyone's intentions; this situation has become more and more obvious in the past 10 years, showing that mankind is in the middle of a deadly pleasure party, and even the mastermind is unknown. So the surprise party. The exact start date of this party is unknown, but there is no doubt that it took off in 2006: that year, we began to use technology seriously and appropriately, allowing the dead to stay in the spaces and places where the living frequently move, and make them stop linger.

●In 2006, weblogs (now called "blogs") broke the 50 million mark, but in 1999, there were only 23 blogs in the world—I repeat, not 23 million, but " twenty three". In 2006, YouTube celebrated its first birthday, and Facebook and Twitter were just born; although these online platforms were new-born foals, they rushed forward like racing horses, and were named the year after 4 years. The most influential person is no longer "you" or each of us: in 2010, Time magazine selected Mark as the main behind-the-scenes trader in the online world, and the world's strongest, leading game-changing social networking site CEO Mark · Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) Person of the Year.

●Most of the online world (including social media) is literally a social disintegration party brawl: without the cocktails, the guests are the most complex group of people imaginable—everyone. Most of the ordinary "offline people" (AO) are fully aware of this situation, and maybe this is their preferred situation. These people are likely all (but not guaranteed to be digital natives, and digital natives deal with and experience privacy in different ways. According to the 5th "Imagining the Internet Center" According to the "Future of Internet" survey, they described the "AO generation" as follows: Around 2020, this group of young AO generations who have been in contact with each other and information through the Internet since childhood is expected to become a More agile, quicker multitaskers, they rely heavily on the Internet (which acts as their "external brain"), and they approach problems in a very different way than their predecessors.

●The reason why some people are eager to try "recording life" has hundreds of motives: some people are afraid that they can't remember things, others are narcissistic or paranoid, of course, it may also be out of artistic creation, academic research, or simply Just want to leave some life records for future generations. Dave Eggers' novel "The Circle" describes a dystopian society created by recording and sharing lives; Netflix later remade the novel into a movie "Live Storm" (Tom Han Starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson], further enhancing the possibilities described in the book and teaching people to feel uneasy. Whether you read the original novel or watch the online movie, you should be able to understand the reason why the "comprehensive recording of life" has not yet fully taken off, and why it is invincible.

●The term "digital archive" can be used to refer to all kinds of aggregated data; however, in terms of the subject and application of this book, digital archives are different from the aforementioned autobiographical or biographical The information disclosed to the general audience on the road is different. Digital envelopes are "behind the scenes" and non-public personal data, such as emails, text messages, chat logs, documents and images stored on personal devices or password-protected cloud servers. Although we may also share this information with others (especially with whom we actively disseminate), it is ultimately private rather than public information. Some of these materials are bland or administrative, some are non-personal, and some reveal too much personal privacy; however, regardless of their nature, the parties have no intention of disseminating them, or even outright conflict with the public image they tend to display. Whether you think that you are like an open book with no intention of covering up, or you tend to act decisively and quickly reset the file password or pass the pass code, I guess, there should be a slight hesitation in your heart, suspecting that your heir may read the archive after your death. everything within. However, this shouldn't happen. can you?

●Ten suggestions for digital funerals:

1. Facing the anxiety of death.

2. Evaluate really, don't guess.

3. Think from someone else's point of view.

4. Find someone to talk about death and digital related issues.

5. Make a will that is in line with the trends of the digital age.

6. Establish a password management system, so that the person you entrust can obtain the password information smoothly.

7. Do your best to plan to avoid leaving disputes or regrets.

8. Knowing more is not necessarily more comforting.

9. Follow the old-school style.

10. Don't expect immortality.

~ Elaine Kasket, full-time lecturer at Regent University London, clinical counselor, mourning group leader of the Digital Heritage Society, and senior member of the British Higher Education Institute

~ "How to Say Goodbye in the Internet Age: From Live Farewells to Managing Digital Legacy"

~All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age

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