Life and Afterlife Online: Planning A Social Media 'Will'

Social media trends, when closely observed, is not as simple as sending posts on Facebook about what one ate for breakfast. At a deeper level, business companies have made wise use through marketing their services and products.

It is when the government takes initiatives that people realize the extent of seriousness that is involved in what had started as a 'fun activity.'

While one is recording their entire lives, beginning from birth to death, it now includes planning for one's afterlife. Recently, in the context of estate planning, the government's blog advised people to create one's will on social media with the help of an online 'executor.' The diction seems to have been carefully selected for reasons that are factual, despite the somber topic.

How people exercise this opportunity is debatable, but it is certainly opening new avenues for solicitors, which will mean studying the aspects involved in the legalities of social media will and which also means there will be attorneys who specialize in this field.

While the business site Mashable recommends establishing a trust or an informal agreement, there is also the question of security that is why it is recommended using a reliable website for the purpose.

A second point that should be taken into consideration is that laws differ from state to state. How online wills will be able to comply along with online policies will be deemed challenging. Although there are do-it-yourself forms available, one should follow the advice and have an attorney with the process.

Third, the user will have to be careful with regard to privacy settings to restrict viewing and avoid awkward reactions from within his or her social circle and thereby reduce chances of anyone contesting the will.

Making a will online is comparatively inexpensive. However, cost reduction should not be a priority. If there are websites that offer the service free, then one should consider it highly risky as well. The New York Times recently quoted a law professor stating that expert consultation is far better than the software packages available for online services.

That is not to say one must altogether do away with online services. They offer detailed information that one can see at their convenience and that providing an overview of what is involved in the process. One can prepare a list of questions in advance with the help of such software that they can discuss with their attorney. In addition, it will provide one with aspects that the user may not have previously considered. A comment in the same New York Times article vouched for this, where the use of software to was commended by the lawyer.

In short, considering the odds, if one can be objective and practical, it is a wise choice. The options that the internet has provided are there for one to take up easily, but using them wisely is what count in the end.

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All Hail Social Media

Social Media has become an extremely important aspect to almost every business across the country. With over 90% of marketers admitting that social media is a big part of their business strategy it would be ridiculous for a company to not jump on the bandwagon. But don't be fooled, this whole social media boom wasn't kicked off by MySpace in 2003, in fact LinkedIn was actually created before MySpace it just didn't blow up until a few years ago. One of the very first forms of social media was a "system" created in the late 70's, which allowed users to post articles for others to see, similar to an online newspaper. Eventually companies like Geis (now known as GXS) and CompuServe started to make a push towards a chat/email program that could be used, but seeing as innovative technology is always expensive, not many people could afford the hefty charges. AOL was the first affordable chat/mail company, leaving us with a famous line that we will never forget, "You've got mail!" Companies then started to work towards live blogs, journals, and forums, allowing people to rapidly interact about thousands of different topics. We can even count video games such as the World of Warcraft as a kind of social media, but not the kind that is used today as a part of most business' marketing strategies. Although many companies came up with ideas that were similar to the World of Warcraft, letting people rapidly engage in conversation, network, trade and exchange products while maintaining steady business relationships, in fact it is quite fascinating how similar the business world is to one of the first socially interactive games ever created.

Today we are surrounded by thousands of social media companies, the three behemoths being Facebook, with over 800 million users, Twitter with over 150 million and LinkedIn racking up 161 million, making it the biggest professional network on the internet. It is impossible to go through your day without seeing anything related to social media whether it be on a company billboard with the little "f" or "t" symbol for Facebook and Twitter, or on the TV screen that your looking at while eating your breakfast. Social media sucks you in like quicksand yet spreads like wildfire, a very deadly combination... but technology moves in mysterious ways, people thought MySpace wouldn't disappear as quickly as it did and that Facebook would be a successful public company, which has actually turned out to be the worst IPO in history... so seeing as no one can truly predict the future, my question to you is, what's next?

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The Story of Smart Phones and Social Media

Smart-phones with their capability of installing customized apps are more popular than older multimedia or featured phones. People tend to choose smart-devices due to:

their enhanced performance,improved user experiencepresence of their large app store

Social media is targeting this addiction of smart-phones by introducing their apps for different mobile platforms. Strategic deployment of mobile application development is integrating social communication addiction with smart-phones and has been profiting both the sectors. The social space is taking its step towards smart-phones so as to allow users to connect with them all the time and improve their statistics. Even the mobile market has sensed this need and hence many mobile manufacturers are coming up with new mobile devices which either have a single push-button based devices to access social media or widget based phones, which embeds social apps.

According to a report published by ComScore in March 2012, customer engagement on social media platform, Facebook, through a smart-device was more than 7 hours a day as compared to 6 hours from a desktop device. Likewise, Twitter account holders connects with their account for about 2 Hours a day, while the duration for same account was 20 min. approx from a desktop or laptop.

Reasons that why this happened could be:

With the coming of cloud computing platforms, mobile apps have become more handy and provide accessibility anywhere,
No need to start the device again and again to access the account, it's just about one or two clicks,
Users are getting broadband speeds on their mobile devices, so dependency on desktop systems or laptops has virtually vanished
Device functions are more dedicated for social media integration. Users can directly upload their photographs in their album in social media rather than first uploading it to their computer and then to their account.

Some of the most popular social media apps for smart-phone users are:

Blending smart-phones with the feature of social interaction attracts the users to these devices. Social interaction on the web has increased considerably due to the long working durations spent on internet or computer. So to relax during these long seating hours, social media holds a tight grip for providing mental and eventually physical relaxation.

Facebook, the most popular among all. Facebook has developed this app for more than 2500 mobile handsets, including various feature phones and multi-media phones.
Twitter, another popular social media platform known for its short post called tweets, is perfect for the mobile user. Short character tweets are perfect for posting through a wireless media.
eBuddy, helps you to use three social media platform's i.e. Facebook, AOL and yahoo instant messaging service on the go. No need to install each app for the device separately. It's just eBuddy and you get all the three you want.

David Frankk is the author of this article. He loves writing articles for android application development companies like Q3 Technologies. Moreover, he has been providing useful content writing material related to Blackberry enterprise applications.

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