What happens to online content when we die?

The Internet affords us a lot of opportunities to post and search for content while we’re alive. But what about after we die?

It’s a pretty valid question, considering a whole lot of people have pictures or blog entries posted somewhere online. Mark Schaefer found some answers in his recent grow.com blog post. Companies, he discovered, are taking notice of this, and developing post-mortem file-sharing methods.

Functioning along the lines of a cyber will, “hundreds of resources” provide services that adapt to the 21^st century’s digital age, Schaefer learned, including the following:

Dead Man’s Switch is a free service that notifies people you select via email that you’ve passed away, and goes 60 years into the future.