Online Legacy

Legacy is invaluable, it will be remembered years to come. But the question is who will tell the future generation about our story. It is essential that your story kept in the safety place. With Online-Legacy, we have a chance to preserve our memory from photo, text, voice, and video. I believe this unique feature will help us to enhance our connection with our great grand kids. Recently I read a story how people chose to work in the field they do not like just because they can earn higher income and they did not want to change their career. I was told by some people we should do something we love and passionate about. It struck my head that people choose to stick with their hectic job to save their money rather than switching their pathway which gives less income but happier life. Maybe for them, they are more afraid to live rather than to die because they afraid to take opportunity where as it is very limited. Basically my point is that you can share your story about changing careers the ups and downs more dramatically in Online-Legacy. If you feel ashamed to share the story to the public, Online-Legacy will provide you a safety box with a password, thus your story will be remembered forever and only your family can retrieve it.

Do you remember the tape-based phone message systems that were popular twenty years ago? Perhaps you still use one. If so the voice-recording quality has likely degraded. Do you save voice messages from special people?

I read a story in the Wall Street journal (April 7, 2010) about James Alan Bouton, the author of "Ball Four" a best selling book on baseball published in 1970. The author created a controversy with antedotes about the infamous exploits of famous players of the 60's. Several players were upset along with the commissioner. It was believed that Mickey Mantel took the accusations personally but before his death in 1995, Mickey called the author and left a personal message. The author states in the article that he is "saving the tape for his grandchildren".

Tapes don't "save", they decay. And worse, the devices that "play" tapes are disappearing.
Unless Mr. Bouton takes steps to digitize the tape, his grandchildren won't Mickey's voice.

Most voice mail systems today use hard drive media. But they are often temporary service plans. My cell phone messages must be re-saved every 10 days or they are automatically erased. For years I re-saved a special message from my five year-old grandson - until I forgot - and now it is lost.

to be continued.

Memories need to be remembered and preserved. However, with the increasing number of identity theft, it would be great to have your memories visible only by a certain people. Preserve your story to your grandchildren. Online-Legacy is a great and reliable service who provides customizable voice, picture and video feature, you will be remembered as who you want to be remembered. Life is short why take it for granted? As the technology advancing, why we do not leverage the tools and preserve our memory for future generation. Sometimes I am wondering how my grandfather and my grandmother looks like and what their voice sound like, more importantly what their life story is about. With the feature offered by Online-Legacy, I see limitless possibilities to provide my grandchildren about my life story DIRECTLY. When using Online-Legacy, I have a feeling that I will have more deeper connection since I am the one who tell my story, no one else. Thank you Online-Legacy for providing this unique service, I believe our grandchildren will benefit and appreciate for this invention.

Privacy means different things to different people, and the definition is constantly changing.  Your friends on Facebook are private if you are concerned about spammers abusing them with misrepresentations of your preferences.  Once you place content on Facebook, it ceases to belong to you and can be accessed by many.  Anecdotes abound about homes being robbed while the family is on a made-public-on Facebook vacation. Many people worry about online identity theft, although the vast majority of ID theft is the result of someone "literally" getting their hands on your credit card.

If you had a place to capture personal private stories, what would you share with family members, select friends or your heirs in the future?

1. Embarrassing episodes that (you think) would damage your reputation or career or friendships if made public today. 

2. Painful episodes that gain some measure of release by recounting. Gut wrenching stories of incest, alcoholism, and rape are popular topics for memoir-as-therapy. Book royalties and the establishment of your status as an author or celebrity, are additional motivations behind the popularity of this genre. But few of us want to share those stories, and fewer of us are capable of writing a book around them.

3. Confessions - sins or crimes committed that violated laws or morals.

4. Retrospection - Turns on the road of life that changed your life or the lives of others. Painful lessons learned, actions you would undo if you could, or decisions that were not understood for their greater good.

5.  Simple stories or feelings about past events; the re-telling of personal family stories that would not seem pertinent to the outside world, but to your family, have meaning.

6. Life’s do’s and don’ts.

Anyone who has lived through several decades will likely have several stories that fit into one or more of these categories.  Can you recall them? Can you capture and refine them to reach some understanding about yourself? Can you preserve and share them with select people?  How will you share them knowing that they are blocked from public display?

Online-Legacy gives you the ability to share these stories, anecdotes, rants, life’s lessons, etc, with only those you choose.  Your purchase of a digital safe on Permasite.net gives your memories the privacy you want.  You can give out visitor codes so those you want to share your legacy with can view it, but no one else.  Privacy is Online-Legacy’s most attractive feature and gives people the ability to create digitally with a sense security.

I just finished a book on death and personal family memoir by Julian Barnes Nothing to Be Frightened Of .  "Nothing" is a double entendre that also means "total annihilation of your being". The central theme is that religious beliefs not withstanding, the living brain simply can't grasp it's own death. To quote William Saroyan, "Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?”

One implication is the living are compelled to embrace being alive, i.e. move on with your life after someone dies. Like a New Orleans funeral, strike up the pomp and circumstance after the tomb is shut.

Another implication is that websites that honor the dead are simply not interesting except to a very few loved ones who can't let go. When I cycle home I use a bike trail that passes by a local cemetery. A nearby grave was decorated in flowers and flower petals laced into the chain link fence surrounding the cemetery spelled out "We miss you Mom". I frequently saw two young women kneeling next to the site. I only pass this way once or twice a week, so seeing them every time meant they were there every day. But no more. Life goes on.

Creating memoir engages your memory. We are our memories. Memories older than eleven years are known to reside (and hide) in some corner of the hippocampus until something draws them out. Drawing them out brings you closer to your own past and brings people that affected you back into your life - either as memories, or contributors to your ongoing life story.

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