Comments on: The merits of an Offline Facebook. http://www.future-sense.net/2009/10/29/the-merits-of-an-offline-facebook/ Thoughts, ramblings and experiments in making sense of a complex Future Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:35:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anjalika Bose http://www.future-sense.net/2009/10/29/the-merits-of-an-offline-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Anjalika Bose Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:36:29 +0000 http://www.future-sense.net/?p=60#comment-15 These are very interesting and relevant thoughts of our times. I've been thinking about this a lot off late. The footprints of information that we are leaving of our lives, thoughts, conversations are massive already and the collective memories that we are creating everyday on virtual platforms are incredible. However I am quite sure that in the future there will be (scarily or not) perhaps even more continuous and ambient means of documenting lives, connecting and sharing. The next generation, who's lives are already being documented online from the day they are born are going to find so many windows to their own childhood through their parent's eyes and so many windows to their own parent's lives. But just like the windows to our own parents lives are nothing more than old photographs, exchanges of letters and diaries, and seem meager in comparison to the windows to our lives, in the same way, could the next generation have so many more windows to their lives that our seem meager in comparison? And just like the 'data of our bodies' is burned or buried or left for birds to scavenge upon, so will our data on social networks follow a parallel but similar route when we die based on what we choose it to be. These are very interesting and relevant thoughts of our times. I’ve been thinking about this a lot off late. The footprints of information that we are leaving of our lives, thoughts, conversations are massive already and the collective memories that we are creating everyday on virtual platforms are incredible. However I am quite sure that in the future there will be (scarily or not) perhaps even more continuous and ambient means of documenting lives, connecting and sharing. The next generation, who’s lives are already being documented online from the day they are born are going to find so many windows to their own childhood through their parent’s eyes and so many windows to their own parent’s lives. But just like the windows to our own parents lives are nothing more than old photographs, exchanges of letters and diaries, and seem meager in comparison to the windows to our lives, in the same way, could the next generation have so many more windows to their lives that our seem meager in comparison?

And just like the ‘data of our bodies’ is burned or buried or left for birds to scavenge upon, so will our data on social networks follow a parallel but similar route when we die based on what we choose it to be.

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