Dick Logan

Have you ever thought about who will get your websites when you die? I usually don’t even think about as far as next week let alone after my death. This thought occurred to me while I was writing my recent post about the question where will your content be in ten years, and I started to look even further.

I think, perhaps, by that time, if you’re websites are still popular and being visited after 50, 60, or 70 years then it would definitely be something to keep in the family. That being the case, the question then remains whether or not your children want to continue your work or even have the know-how to do it. But let’s not doubt them so quickly, it may in be us that won’t know how to use the technology of the future, I mean how many old people do you know run websites by themselves and keep up with today’s trends? No joke though, not very many. So that may be us in a couple of decades, but I hope it’s not.

Regardless, will they want to continue to work on the site to generate fresh content? What kind of site is it, your personal blog? But you’ve died, there is no more of your story, unless your children or grandchildren would like to write something about you everyday, which would would just seem a bit strange and a hassle. How would you like to keep writing about your deceased uncle everyday for the rest of your life? It’s ridiculous, out of the question. So your blog ends. With no new content, it will be buried forever. Like you.

Phew. Haha did you like how I pulled that last sentence off? Yeah it’s kind of depressing but after examining cadavers in pre-med I started to think alot about life and things worth doing. Sadly right now blogging, amateur website making doesn’t seem worth it with the little time we have.

But at any rate it’s something to think about, since your investing so much time in webmastering why do it if it won’t be around long anyhow.