Name: After your final status update
Uploaded: 2011-08-01T14:46:54Z
Duration: 5 min 12 s
Description: Many of us have a social media presence -- a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you've died? Could it ... live on?

Many of us have a social media presence -- a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you've died? Could it ... live on?

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

After your final status update

48 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per minute and 200 million daily Tweets outline a digital legacy unlike any before.

Advancements could enable lifelike interactions with digital representations of loved ones, redefining life's continuity.

Exploring digital legacies, envision a future where our online personas interact posthumously, thanks to vast data archives.