In the Event of My Death
Relax everyone... the blox-meister's still here!
But 100,000 people in the UK have signed a petition that calls for parental access to the social media accounts of children who've taken their own lives.
Ellen Roome, who lost her 14-year old son in this way, points out that were he to have died from an illness a post-mortem would be undertaken, but any such clues in such a case as this are denied by social media organisations. They do this to protect the privacy... of dead people, she adds.
We've touched on this before... a means of enabling others to access social media in the event by a setting allowing family members to unlock an account by identifying their familiars.
You may not want it enabled on a continuous basis and as a teenager most likely not, but it could be a default feature for every year-end unless overridden.
The way organs in the UK are assumed to be up for grabs unless otherwise advised?
Correction: whilst we're in a sombre mood I promised Fasthosts that I would retract the assertion that my laptop is running like a dog likely due their hosting. In retrospect changing a broadband provider, web hosting service and operating system at the same time is to turn the issue into a game of Cluedo.
