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Why'd You Push That Button?

Death Online: Planning your digital afterlife

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4683 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What’s going to happen to all of your tweets, Instagram photos, and emails when you die? To kick off a special three-part miniseries about Death Online, Ashley and Kaitlyn are in search of the perfect digital afterlife — and the skills they’ll need to clean up after themselves from beyond the grave. In this episode, they talk to an estate planner, a Tumblr star, an advice columnist, and a Why’d You Push That Button? listener who has no interest in being a Facebook ghost. Long story short: if you want to RIP, you have to plan ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Zsa Express. So I guess that morning, unassuming, just logged on to Facebook like you do in the

1:08.4

morning, not really paying much attention to it, and all of a sudden was confronted with this, you know, algorithmically produced video celebrating nine years of friendship with my brother, Aaron, who had died two years before.

1:28.0

It also showed the post that had the most engagement where it was me and my brother,

1:33.8

and that post was literally the post, like right before he died, where he was on his

1:39.4

deathbed, and I, like, kind of posted to the universe, just sort of, you know, seeking solace and prayers and some sort of human contact.

1:50.4

To have that like reminder in a kind of like happy, joky, algorithmic way was so just kind of insulting and weird.

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