Not to be morbid, but what happens to all our tweets, Facebook posts and other digital content after we die? This was the subject of a TED talk recently by Adam Ostrow, editor-in-chief of Mashable, the online news site covering digital culture, social media and technology.

He noted that all of us are creating a huge personal digital archive that will live on long after we’re gone. There are also sites such as ifidie.net that enable us to record a farewell video that can be posted to Facebook. In effect, all of who are active on social media will live in eternity. Quite a thought.

Here is Adam on this topic: