Monday April 11, 2022; 7:52 PM EDT
- My mother's advice, late in her life, was to "Unburden your heirs of the need to throw out stuff only you value."#
- I think a corollary might be, "Leave to your heirs stuff they might value so the choice is up to them."#
- So I just did that with the Google Inactive Account Manager. After my account is idle for 3 months, my youngest adult heir will get a text and an email offering them whatever is in there. It's not a lot because I avoid lots of Google services, but it's some.#
- I can have everything automatically deleted if 3 more months go by and nobody has taken whatever is there. That actually makes sense for a lot of stuff, but not for a Blogger blog. I like to think that blogs by design should be publications that remain on the Web's shelves.#
- I think it would be better if all the data in Google's many personal data folders (location, mail, etc.) was mine and not just theirs, and I had a similar way, at my end, to go through the same exercise. We need independence and should design more for that than we do.#