What's Your Exit Strategy?
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I'm not referring to selling your blog to big business after you've grown your readership to thousands of viewers daily. I'm talking about you. What's your plan for your blog just in case you... well, you know, exit?
LaTtex' entry The Immortality of your Persona in the Internet got me thinking. What happens when you go, but your blog stays?
In the case of Friendster, shouldn't it have some kind of deactivation sequence if you haven't logged in after a couple of years? It is difficult when things online keep coming back, haunting us of a past that will never return.
What about your web site? Are you offering mentoring or other services? What happens if people pay online, yet are unable to avail of your product because you're no longer around to help them?
Perhaps I'll review some of my alternative online payment methods to help decrease potential hassles... Just in case.
On another note, are sites truly immortal online? Perhaps free sites backed by big business will, more or less, outlive us. The question remains, what do we wish to leave behind?
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"What's Your Exit Strategy?"
First Posted: September 19, 2007 | Filed in: General
Wow, this got me thinking... I have several websites that I maintain and numerous subdomains under these websites. Nobody knows what I do behind those sites and I don't put down usernames and passwords anywhere. It's all in my mind... what if something happens and...
Do you think I should at least tell someone about everything just in case?
Hi Sasha... you can document things and place it in a safe. Let someone you trust know about it, especially if that someone will be affected... just in case.
I think for me, my Internet persona lives on even if I delete my blog. My blog is and will be in Internet archives no matter what I do.