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[Prez]

I'm not wasting time clearing out my shit. I'm going places and doing stuff.

Do you even have anything in your search history to be embarrassed about? If GAF was the most embarrassing thing in my search history, I wouldn't worry about it either.

 

[jaxword]

Do you even have anything in your search history to be embarrassed about? If GAF was the most embarrassing thing in my search history, I wouldn't worry about it either.

How embarrassed can a corpse be?

 

[notsol337]

I stole a nuke from Iran. It's hooked up to a dead hand system, so when I die I'm pretty sure half of western Ohio is just going to disappear.

 

[scorcho]

You're going to die and all you're busy thinking about is virtual 1 and 0s? Sad reflection of a wasted life.

Go and touch something real.

a 7am topic on a Sunday morning is a reflection on my 'wasted life.'

thanks for the advice, champ.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I would not care about my history or appearance on the web. Instead I would go about emptying my savings accounts and donating to Children's hospitals. Those kids deserve the opportunity took lives, free of any medical ailments.

 

[replicashooter]

a 7am topic on a Sunday morning is a reflection on my 'wasted life.'

thanks for the advice, champ.

Time and the place of the thought have nothing to do with it, punchy - It's the premise. Lets say you get an email from the human timeline division that states "you have so and so time left" what kind of person would then think "I know, I better go online" instead of going to give somebody a hug and saying what you feel?

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

Fuck deleting everything. I'd rather people think "he liked Remy La Croix, he had good taste".

 

[Snuggles]

I would rather leave my fate shrouded in mysterious. I will become a thing of legends.

Fuck deleting everything. I'd rather people think "he liked Remy La Croix, he had good taste".

Whoa dude, were you banned for a year or something? Haven't seen you in ages.

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

Whoa dude, were you banned for a year or something? Haven't seen you in ages.

Yeah, it was self requested. I had too much to do. Also my posting quality was terrible so i'm going to try harder now.

 

[Izick]

If I'm dead then who cares?

 

[scorcho]

Time and the place of the thought have nothing to do with it, punchy - It's the premise. Lets say you get an email from the human timeline division that states "you have so and so time left" what kind of person would then think "I know, I better go online" instead of going to give somebody a hug and saying what you feel?

and who are you to judge whether someone has or hasn't?

 

[Sanjuro]

Upload everything to the cloud. Jack off in the afterlife.

 

[brumx]

considering you can die in a split second from even tooth ache you will suffer the worst pain for a second so you wont have to time to think at all.

 

[endresults]

Move to the Netherlands, Set up an FTP server, post address to GAF, let the world pick through my porn, videogames, and shitty gifs.

 

[scorcho]

Upload everything to the cloud. Jack off in the afterlife.

i'm thinking this may be my last stab at immortality. i'm figuring out how many years in advance i can pay iTunes Match and how much EC2 instances i'll need to round up.

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Time and the place of the thought have nothing to do with it, punchy - It's the premise. Lets say you get an email from the human timeline division that states "you have so and so time left" what kind of person would then think "I know, I better go online" instead of going to give somebody a hug and saying what you feel?

OR why don't you actually read the OP's post before telling him he's wasted his life.

 

[Angry Fork]

Time and the place of the thought have nothing to do with it, punchy - It's the premise. Lets say you get an email from the human timeline division that states "you have so and so time left" what kind of person would then think "I know, I better go online" instead of going to give somebody a hug and saying what you feel?

If you had some online thing that revealed you were a secret murderer, deleting that would essentially be preserving a certain image of yourself for your relatives to remember when you die. When you hug someone and tell them you love them or whatever before you leave you're making an active effort to have them remember something about you since you won't be there anymore.

Someone may feel it's necessary to wipe out certain aspects of themselves so that their family members don't find something fucked up about them remember them in a way the person didn't want. If you had some fetish for pony's and disney characters and everyone finds out your relatives will have to think about that and bear the brunt of how weird it was. Imagine how awkward the funeral would be if everyone there knew Frank jerked off to teletubbies and wizards. You wouldn't care since you'd be dead but they would. People still have an effect on others beyond death.

I think that was the point he was making, not that the internet matters more than real life.

 

[B-Dubs]

I'll be honest, I thought this thread was about the stickied threads for a minute.

I'd probably just delete my porn then go have some fun.

 

[SeriousApes]

I will hire someone to take up the mantle as the new SeriousApes.

I will not let the world suffer my loss.

And I'm taking my porn with me.

 

[totowhoa]

This makes me how much waste occurs on the Internet due to people dying and not getting their accounts closed up. All the e-mail services continually receiving newsletters and alerts, cloud storage, social media accounts, WoW accounts Probably not much now because of the technological gap among generations. Even then, I realize it's relatively small thing probably, but I'm curious. Maybe it's not too big of a deal if they are just clearing accounts after X amount of inactivity.

 

[scorcho]

OR why don't you actually read the OP's post before telling him he's wasted his life.

judging from his stickied thread it seems he's fine going out this way.

i suppose a fair number of deaths are sudden. i assume a growing number are due to chronic diseases like cancer where there's usually a reasonable expectation of when death is imminent. and it's not like you just fucking die quietly in the night. the disease robs every bit of your humanity, morality and physicality away from you bit by bit, in gentle slopes and sudden falls that are unexpected. loves have been shared, preemptive goodbyes posted early.

just one question about one's online persona. it's not a fucking reflection of someone's life. it's what they can do at that moment, perhaps, but it didn't define how they lived. sadly, it could be all they can do right now.

 

[Conciliator]

I honestly have no idea what I would do. I want to do something, but I don't know if I could figure out what. What's on my bucket list? Couldn't tell you.

 

[replicashooter]

and who are you to judge whether someone has or hasn't?

Just another nobody on this big nothing out in the middle of nowhere, why does my opinion matter so much to you?

OR why don't you actually read the OP's post before telling him he's wasted his life.

I did read the OP and thats exactly what inspired my response, as I shall illustrate:

Suppose you're coming close, or at least know you're coming close to the end of your life. (How glorious/terrifying it would be if we knew our expiration dates and could prepare accordingly for them. No more unspoken goodbyes, or bad notes, just clarity and wisdom and the ability to truly communicate with all that you have touched/been touched by in life in a meaningful fashion before you move on) How do you go about your online profiles and accounts? (WTF - I didn't see this one coming, at this point I am surprised and chirp out my response. I was expecting a deep and meaningful thread only to have it degenerate into a frivolous side street rumination about ONLINE ACCOUNTS?) Would you close your facebook and social networking profiles? Erase all your data off of Google, iTunes, iCloud and the like? (Why would you even care, look at the excellent concept you imagined and now look at how your applying it here, this is life and death my friend - the most important things you will ever experience, the points within which all else (as far as you know) occurs and you want me to think about my Trophies?)

I imagine some family members and friends would want you to keep some things up as a way to reminisce (At this point I am literally frothing onto my keyboard with how inane this has all become so I shall refrain from further commentary on the OP but you get my drift), but it seems like some data dumps like browser syncing and search history (hello there!) should be obvious candidates to be wiped.

Damn, imagine having to go through a bunch of old-school memory cards that may or may not include home made pornographic arts of you and several women and/or men.

Overall I think I was disappointed, this had the potential to be an excellent thread that had the scope to touch on a lot of variables but online profiles? Seriously?

 

[scorcho]

Just another nobody on this big nothing out in the middle of nowhere, why does my opinion matter so much to you?



I did read the OP and thats exactly what inspired my response, as I shall illustrate:



Overall I think I was disappointed, this had the potential to be an excellent thread that had the scope to touch on a lot of variables but online profiles? Seriously?

So, how would you rate this thread, a D? D-? Also, are you shocked that ancient Romans and Grecians don't speak with British accents?

 

[replicashooter]

So, how would you rate this thread, a D? D-? Also, are you shocked that ancient Romans and Grecians don't speak with British accents?

What's that got to do with anything? I've already said that this thread wasn't what I expected.

It's like the first time I ate a mince pie at christmas and expected a savoury sensation, not fruits.

Just like that but digital, that's what this post was. It hit a raw nerve.

 

[JMizzlin]

I have arranged a protege to post under my various online personas so as to continue the magic.

 

[Anteater]

who gives a shit about the internets

I'll make a thread on gaf though.

 

[7threst]

I'd hire a Social Media Executor (Dutch) to arrange what should happen with all my online accounts.

 

[Razek]

I have absolutely nothing to hide, I wouldn't delete a thing. The closest thing to social media I have is Gaf. Pretty much most of my life is conducted offline, so there really wouldn't be much to do besides tidy up things here, assuming if anyone cared then of course.

 

[YoungHav]

Will just leave a peace out status update and allow anyone that really wants to talk to me to give me a call.

I will admit it was rather strange having dead friends on Facebook and me getting alerts like "You haven't spoken to [Blank] in a while, why not send her a message?", yeah b/c she's been dead for 6 months you ass hats. I am glad they stopped doing that.

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Just another nobody on this big nothing out in the middle of nowhere, why does my opinion matter so much to you?



I did read the OP and thats exactly what inspired my response, as I shall illustrate:



Overall I think I was disappointed, this had the potential to be an excellent thread that had the scope to touch on a lot of variables but online profiles? Seriously?

I honestly cannot fathom why you're getting so angry over this. The stuff you leave behind is going to effect how your loved ones remember you, and that includes your online accounts and other digital property. Its something that most people haven't really considered, but we live so much of our lives through technology these days that its something that we're all going to have to deal with.

 

[ScreenSplitter]

I find myself wanting to get rid of online profiles half the time anyway. I'd probably give my Steam account details to my brother, but for iTunes my parents know I pretty much like the Beatles.

 

[Crayons]

You're going to be dead and you're still afraid that people will see parts of the real you. Think about that for a second...

Wise words.

 

[BPRD]

I would have a 'Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas' moment the time leading up to my death. I would spare no expense! Even if I didn't have the funds, I would get it because the consequences mean nothing to me. As for my hard drive I have thought of this before.. I would take it out smash it with a hammer, and put it in a dumpster somewhere on the way to vegas


but most likely you die unexpectedly... which would mean my last days were spent masturbating, and eating ramen