Inspired by drunk thread posts. If you died, would you want your significant other/family to let people here know? Would you want people here to tell folks you know in real life about your board life? Focus: Why or why not? Would you be concerned they would read things they didn't know about you? Would you be embarrassed? Would they? Alt Focus: If you were to croak right now, what stuff would your family find as they wrapped up your "estate"? What internet-presence would be left in limbo? What's under your bed in that crusty shoe box?
I remember this having been done in the past, but seeing as THERE AREN'T REALLY A LOT OF FUCKING SUGGESTION THREADS TO CHOOSE FROM, I thought I'd run this one again.
Focus: Ehh it doesnt matter. I connect with a couple folks on here on FB so theyd figure it out through all the "OMG RIP only the good die young ;_;" posts people would post on my wall. (At least I hope) FutureWife knows Im on a messageboard, but she doesnt know anything more than that. Its my own thing and she doesnt ask about it. Alt Focus Nothing really, I dont have anything shocking except maybe some awkward internet histories, but Im pretty good on keeping tabs on those. Adam Carolla had a pretty good sketch on the Man Show about this. Basically it was an agency that goes to your house after you die and cleans up all the embarrassing stuff for you before your family finds out.
I have an agreement with a good friend, that if either one of us dies, the survivor immediately gets the hard drive and laptop of the deceased and destroys it. This was inspired by that man show bit.
Focus: If I died in real life, there is one person on this board that knows me in real life and can relay the information back. No one else knows I'm on a message board and I want to keep it that way. Especially since the girlfriend would fucking murder me about any of the stories or things I've posted on here about us. I don't think I've ever put out anything serious, but as far as people knowing shit about her life, she's worse than a CIA employee. Alt-Focus: I set all of my browsers to never save any of my histories. There are only a few porn sites I go to and I don't need to need autocomplete ever. I do have an HDD with all the porn, sadly enough, due to my brother living at home until 30 and being a complete idiot with porn since the age of 18, my parents would be disappointed but not shocked. My gf watches half my porn anyway so no loss there.
I'm like Juicy insofar as I have a few TiB/FB crossovers who would hopefully advise you all of my untimely demise. Hopefully something heartfelt and sentimental, like "Angel croaked." and a memorial link to a photo of my boobs. Thankfully my parents aren't all that tech savvy so I doubt they'd identify my presence here. My greater concern would be the duffel bag of sex toys they'd find in the spare bedroom.
Although I hide nothing including this place from my wife, I doubt I would want somebody like my kid or parents reading me trumpeting my aversion towards fisting and rim-jobs or getting into lengthy discussions on proper coathanger abortion technique. On the other hand I'll be dead and unable to care, or give a shit about anything at all. Decapitate me and use my head for a hospice bedpan. Stop worrying about death and LIVE YOUR LIFE while you have it.
Instead of telling all of you that I'm dead, I'll just have one of my friends copy and paste this to the R&R thread:
I wouldn't particularly care if anyone found this board from my real life once I'm dead. Unless there's a hereafter, then I think it could get mighty uncomfortable in a few years. I guess it would be funny for my wife to find certain sites, especially after we found her dad's DVD porn collection while cleaning out his house. Not awkward at all. Not even awkward when my brother in law took one of the DVDs. Cheap bastard.
Focus I would not want my wife or my family to read some of the stuff I have written, as they have no idea what I was involved in during my 20's and it would be better for them if they did not know. I think the drug abuse and womanizing would really upset them, although if my wife read what I had written it may make it easier for her to move on. She does not read message boards that I am aware of although I do not look at her computer so what do I know, she thinks the only boards I read are fishing sites. I would just want her to say the dewercs screwed himself by messing with (insert name of animal that kills me) Alt-focus If I were to die today there are a few things that would be good and a few that would be bad. The bad would be email conversations I have with a female account rep that is a friend of mine that are deplorable by any standard, the number of women on my facebook that I have had "relations" with prior to being married, the stash of narcotics I have smuggled back from Mexico and the number of guns I really have along with an ammo stash. I would not be worried about my phone as there is nothing on there that would make me look bad. I recently made all the stuff I had saved from women go away so all my shoeboxes are good. The good things would be the amount of cash I have that she is not aware of and the value of all the hunting and fishing shit I have and my retirement account.
Focus-adjacent: There was a board I belonged to for a number of years before it shut down a year ago. A lot of focus on the board was pranks and jokes. Before I joined there was an infamous prank one of the members (his user name was Chickens) played where he started a thread and claimed to be the member's wife letting the board know that he had died. He had them going for like a day or so before fessing up. It became a running joke after that, "Chickens is dead?" We dredged up the thread every year to celebrate the anniversary of his death.
I think the only thing my wife would be surprised by is the amount of porn/NSFW crap on here I watch. For some reason she still thinks I'm her perfect angel, even though I have tried to tell her otherwise. My family knows better. If they read what I had posted on here (yes, even the wheelz stuff), they'd say "yup, sounds about right." I have very strong moral beliefs, and if anything, I have to take the edge off them to abide by the rules on here.... that's actually probably a good thing. I am more funny and charming in person though, and for some reason that doesn't quite come across during E-conversation. For that reason, they may not completely recognize all that they see. I don't really have anything "hidden" so to speak; I'm a loud mouth anyway and I feel the effort I'd put into hiding past transgressions would be greater than the effort I'd put into recovering from revealing them.
There is a small bit of crossover into real life with some people on here. It was kind of cool, I got to know some of y'all fairly well with all those G chats we did, plus I've met Wheelz in real life. I think some of you didn't survive the crossover when I got a new facebook but whatever. If I die, you'll probably find out about it. The people I work with and my husband know exactly how I am. It's a pretty good mirror to how I present myself on here. My family, however....somehow they don't appreciate colorful descriptions of shits and I don't think my mother would think it appropriate that I get drunk on occasion. Plus I am terribly foulmouthed and that would surely shame my father. Sorry daddy. El husband knows I spend a lot of time on here. He thinks I'm a nerd but overall amusing. I'll take it!