Words waiting for their day
Scheduled to save time
May be the last one types
What happens if I vanish?
No more stories can be told
And all my world goes still
Though it would trudge along
Posts and tweets are ready
Departing from a mind turned off
How long before they notice?
Would one report the loss
Or untouched comments be the clue?
The world is not the way it was
Death takes more time to settle
Because many still have statements
Lurking in the cyber-void
Legends of Windemere 
Brilliant work. Loved the poem. So true 🙂
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Thanks. Glad you liked it since it was all off the top of my head.
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Good one. You could schedule posts before the final kick and then no one would get it until you did not return the comments or likes. Then the readership would fall to zero.
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Funny how that would happen. Oh, I guess Charles is dead. I’ll just mark him off my WordPress Friends list, wish his spirit good luck, and raise a glass in his honor. 😛 Seriously though, I can see that happening here. No new content means not much reason to stick around.
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It isn’t the content so much but the fact of not visiting others and hitting the “like ” button and responding to comments. If you could get a bot to fill in you would have eternal virtual life.
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There probably is a way to do that. At least on Twitter and Facebook. Blogging probably not.
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Nice job–it certainly makes one ponder. I’ve seen people’s FB pages after they’ve died. It’s weird, perhaps surreal.
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I’ve seen people remain on AOL Instant Messenger after they died too. I get the memorial sites though. Makes sense. For myself, I wonder what would happened if I died and I still had a month of blog posts going up after that. It’d be strange.
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Yes, I agree with you both about the memorial sites and blog posts scheduled to to up after a person died. It would be strange.
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This gave me shivers! Creepier because it is the complete truth of the matter. It’s almost like the technology is reverting us to a time when the news of deaths took so much longer to come around.
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And yet we still manage to remain distant from it. At least emotionally.
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A thoughtful commentary. And the perfect basis of a modern ghost story.
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It does have some potential there. At least if done better than that Skype/Facebook ghost thing that came out at one point.
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One of the startups I was involved with had to do with automatic messages being sent in the event you failed to log into an account. These would contain your will, in a sense – your final videos and messages to loved ones.
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Interesting. Though what if you aren’t dead? Just that you went on a long vacation or something.
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The system would try to contact you at intervals set by you. If you wanted to stay away from email for, say, a year (as if), you’d simply specify that amount of time until the next notification.
It was all set up and running, but we never found investors for it, so we had to quietly let it die… Oh, the irony…
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Ouch. That is rather ironic. Did it send a message to its loved ones before slipping away?
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It was a sad and poignant one. It ran along the lines of, “invoice for hosting services”
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