Til tech do us part

 Til tech do us part

Oh dear, Thing 21 is a bit sombre. It's all about what happens to our digital data when we die. Now that might seem like a dark question but it is actually important to think about. Before completing the tasks suggested, I actually hadn't thought much about this at all. I had considered making videos for my children so they can always see and hear me, but the rest of the digital stuff I hadn't though about at all. Maybe I'm a little bit psychic though, because for Christmas this year I had actually bought every member of my family notebooks with 'PASSWORDS' written across the front. Luckily I had got myself one too so I took the opportunity to use my Christmas present early with these tasks.

I watched the digital legacy video, downloaded the will, visited their site (it's really interesting) and chose to look at three of the guides, I chose 'mobile phone' 'google' and 'online bank account and subscriptions'. All the advice is good and it's a more serious subject but can save a lot of heartache and stress. My father actually passed away last year and we had a family WhatsApp group. After 6 months of inactivity the contact automatically 'leaves the group' which was a shock and although it isn't quite the same as the other things discussed in this challenge, we would have unlocked his phone and maybe posted old photos or something to it, just to make sure he stayed in the group. But...we couldn't we didn't know his passwords and so his emails lay unread and the photos are locked away. 

So based on this challenge and my own experience I will be recommending that everyone looks into this and decides for themselves what to do about their digital legacy. I will discuss it with my team and we currently don't discuss this with anyone we support. I know I never have. It definitely needs to be something I add to my digital inclusion training though. I might need to find a humourous way to introduce it though. And for Christmas this year I have picked the right gifts for everyone in my house to log their legacy requests!