What do you want done with your social media sites after you die?

[Nikita (Australian)]

Social networking sites are having to devise policies to deal with the death of a user - and some are getting it more right than others

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/200...ng.myspace

[Colin J]

I could not care less, I will not be around.

[Octum]

Ill have someone go onto said sites everyday, and post a message saying "Look, Im dead, stop sending me requests to join your group"

[Allora]

I would want my pages to be deleted. They should probably stay up for a month or two so people can pay their respects, then be removed. How devasating for my friends and family to see my page say 'no recent activity' or receive a spam email from a phisher who has hacked into the account. It would be awful. Having the account open would be like keeping a room the way they left it. It might take a few months to go into their room but eventually you have to take their clothes out of the closet, throw away or distribute their possessions and move on. Leaving it there furthers the grief.

[Aidan B]

It would make sense to describe what you want your friends or family to do in your will. Include your user names and passwords for FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, FriendFeed, Orkut, LiveJournal, Bebo etc so that people can follow your wishes.

Whether you choose to delete the accounts completely, or allow others to post memorial messages is up to you, but for the first time in human history we have a digital legacy that will out-live us.