By Daniel Bean
Image credit: liveson.org
Do you believe in the afterlife? How about the social afterlife? One operation has developed a service that will help you “keep tweeting even after you’ve passed away.”
It’s called _LivesOn and it works by analyzing your current tweets. The service learns about your likes, tastes, syntax and begins to generate its own tweets to a personalized _LivesOn feed. While you’re still living, you can log in to provide feedback — fine-tune the service’s grasp of what types of things you would like tweeted posthumously.
The service will also allow an executor to be chosen to decide, after you’re gone, whether to keep your _LivesOn Twitter feed alive — or pull the plug.
On its Twitter account, @_LivesOn says that while it’s “not a stunt, it’s not commercially viable. We’re doing it with a [university as an artificial intelligence] experiment.” ABC News sent questions to _LivesOn in an email; they were not immediately answered.
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Questions about who owns your social media and Internet accounts after you pass away have swirled for years. New Hampshire State Rep. Peter Sullivan introduced legislation to allow the executor of an estate control over the social networking pages of the dead. There have been similar questions about who owns your iTunes or other media downloads.
But with _LivesOn there may not be such a debate, since users will actively be registering to have their names and accounts stay active after they die.
The _LivesOn service will launch this March.
Source : abcnews[dot]go[dot]com
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