Will Social Media one day become a mass “e-grave” for profiles of the dead?

Bumped into a very interesting conversation about the future of “history” on the popular social media site reddit

Will Facebook one day become a mass “e-grave” for profiles of the dead?

In a hundred years, the internet will hold literally millions of peoples’ life stories. From MySpace, to Facebook, to Twitter, to Tumbler, to everything that’s yet to come, you’ll be able to trace a person’s life from their birth to their death via the millions of postings they, and others, made on the internet.

Every time I see my friends’ baby pictures, I just think that this person’s entire life will most likely be chronicled on the internet, and the historian in me is fascinated by this.

It’s an amazing way to view the current time we are in - this is the point in history where from now forward - all history will no longer be shrouded with mystery.