Most of us has two life's
1) Physical
2) Virtual
Virtual life is an instance of physical life, existing in multiple forms in multiple locations.
The virtual life's is nothing but your profile in social networking websites and personal blogs. Most of us have accounts/profiles in Gmail, Facebook, Twitter ..etc. Each virtual instance will grow independently based on your updates and posts in respective networking sites.
All the social networking site use your information and makes their own business model in creating ads and promotions to make money
Of course with some exception Zurker is an upcoming social networking site with revenue model making its users as owners.
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I have already shared my views on Zurker network. click here to read more about it.
Virtual Life after Physical Death
Virtual instance is controlled by physical life but what happens to your virtual world after death, yes it still exists without you in digital form. Below is the list popular networking sites with their policies on how to deal with the profiles of deceased ones.
Facebook has a memorialising feature by setting the account to private so that only confirmed friends and family members can search and leave posts in remembrance. It disables any future logins to the profile. Family members can also request for removal of account
Google can provide the content to the authorized representative of deceased user with careful review of documents and other policies before providing the credentials.
LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and Orkut - Deletes the account if death certificated is submitted and filling the online form at the respective sites.
Paypal closes the account and issue's a cheque to the legal heir
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