How would we know?

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

i think im pretty covered...lucky too. we talk to so many here every day. i cant imagine that someone wouldnt know if something were to happen to either one of us.
edited to add:
Kat also knows how heavily involved we are in Lit. i believe she would be the one to contact if something happened.

 

[impressive]

I thought a lot about this yesterday. Many here know my name & cell phone number, but beyond that ... nada. Notification would depend on how quickly my biological/legal family actually checked my cell phone for messages & I kinda doubt that would happen for several days -- weeks maybe. My e-mail passwords are not written anywhere.

So, yesterday, I "introduced" bestest buddy to a Lit intimate. They can now contact one another ... and talk about me behind my e-back.

 

[SensualCealy]

Good idea ladies, I have a good friend that I told about Lit a year or so ago, I think its time to discuss this kind of situation with her and let her know how much it would mean to me to let you guys know whats up.
I know Im not as well known as some of you guys, but the few that Im close with Id hope would want to know.

Will discuss this with her tomorrow.
C

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I have one friend, well two as they are a couple, who know of my erotica writing and that I post here. The guy knows my passwords for everything (I only have 4 and use one of those four for everything) and I woul dhope he would pop on and say something.

I know a few people here have my phone number and other contact info, and I would assume if I hadn;t posted for a week or so, or had no on-line presence what so ever, one of them would call and see if I had been fired or if my employers were planning a wake or such.

And in the back of my head I want to set up a web site that I would need to visit daily to rest a timer. 72 hours without resetting and an email gets sent out notifying the secret side of my life about whom to call and such.

 

[Belegon]

I'll have to put some thought into this...other then my co-writer, with whom the contact is so constant...I like the idea of a sealed letter. I'm going to come up with something.

 

[English Lady]

My husband would inform you, but I'm going to have to think about what would happen if we were both in an accident...

 

[Guest]

Adam, my husband, would let you all know. He knows quite a lot of you anyway (if only through me, for the most part), and he also knows how much so many of you mean to me. I haven't actually spoken to him about it - which I will, but I feel certain he'd think of my online friends, should anything happen.

Edited to add: oh yes, I haven't thought about what El said, above. In which case, I'd leave a letter for my brother. He knows about Lit, and he'd see to it that you'd be informed.

 

[sophia jane]

My ex knows about my lit presence, but more than that I think he'd let Logophile know if something happened to me, and she'd probably be the one to pass on the news.

 

[rgraham666]

I'll be taking steps this week. I'll be preparing something for members of my family so they'll be able to let people here know.

 

[eric shawn listo]

Sadly, I now understand the need for this thread...I have no plan in effect but will try to come up with something...

 

[angelicminx]

This is something my SO and I had discussed quite a while ago. He would let y'all know if something happened to me. He knows how important you all are to me. Now, if we are involved in an accident or something I can't guarantee notification. My family has a difficult time navigating the site just to read my new submissions. My cousin still hasn't figured out how to leave a public comment instead of feedback, lol.

I do have a letter with the usernames and passwords of my email, Lit and party poker (My two online communities), but I will be adding instructions to my will when I have that redrawn. I know that the partypoker community will be informed, because I have several RL friends there, but for Lit... I just don't know.

My thought is to create a data CD with everything my family needs to know.

 

[TheEarl]

Elsie, my best friend, is already under instructions in case of the worst. I'd never want to fade away like MathGirl.

I don't think anyone in my vicinity doesn't know how much my friends on my 'writing site' mean to me after the events of the past few days, whether they know what kind of writing goes on here or not.

The Earl

 

[Antfarmer77]

I know I'm not close to anyone here, but I have ( or did have...a long story in itssself) an online friend and we both made arrangments for one or the other to be informed in the event of the worse. Truthfully I don't really know if I'd want to know, I've had what i thought were close online friends that just disappeared. I like to think they're happy and doing well, and I'll keep thinking that as long as I dont hear different.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Sadly, my Lit life is still secret from everyone in my 'real' life. So ther is no one to tell, no one who would let you all know.

I'm afraid I'd be one of those people who just disapeared, never to be heard from again.

 

[carsonshepherd]

OhMissScarlett and I have each other covered, here, and everywhere else in life.

 

[minsue]

If something happened to both Matriarch & I, I would hope my family would contact someone here. They know how important this place and the people here are to me. My parents have Lucky & Vella's contact info, so I assume they would get the news.

Leaving a letter with passwords and sign on IDs is a good idea. Just may have to do that.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Identify yourself to a "Lit Buddy" you trust

A couple weeks ago on a "I'm worried about" missing AHers thread (including Colly) I proposed a buddy system in which everyone designate a buddy who knows their real life persona and can advise others if there is trouble, or almost as importantly, if there is not trouble.

This weekend I asked someone here who I love and trust to be my Lit Buddy, and she said yes. I have shared full personally identifying contact information with her, including the name and location of nearest living relative, and a way to check independently if there is some news about me.

The password info in a sealed letter is a good addition to this.

I don't fully understand this internet friend phenomena, how it is that these disembodied words on a screen become real people to us, who seem to fully engage our emotional beings. They certainly feel as real to us as real real people. Are they really? Given what we are all feeling the last couple days it's impossible to say nay. It's a new frontier, and probably a ripe area for systematic psychological and social science inquiry.

 

[Guest]

At one time I did....
I don't anymore and I really don't know who I would tell.
Unfortunately if I died it would probably be while driving the Big Truck... and most of you in the US would see that since any time a big truck is in any accident it makes national news

 

[Recidiva]

I'm grateful my husband posts here and would know it would matter to me to let my friends here know.

 

[Aurora Black]

After I learned what happened to Colly, I asked my boyfriend to inform you all if anything should happen to me. He still has issues about my writing erotica and the friendships (and mishaps) that have happened since I joined Lit, but I believe he'd fulfill his promise and get the word out.

I just hope it won't ever come to that.

 

[MissBri]

 

[Boota]

When I go I plan on either being famous enough or dying in such a radical way that it will make international news.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

When I go I plan on either being famous enough or dying in such a radical way that it will make international news.

Yay! My 'other' boyfriend! Just a FEW cuss words? Oy...

*ahem*

i'd most likely just disappear. It's been done before, with little to no questions asked, so wouldn't do much harm.

 

[kbate]

My SO has access to a document containing all of my passwords, account names and the site addresses. It also has a list of the titles and categories of my writings, and now, I am adding the names and addresses of those Lit friends with whom I exchange snail mail. I cannot force her to make use of this, but I like to think she would do so.

She has promised that, should anything happen when I go to the hospital in the coming weeks, she will log on and start one thread to notify Lit of my status (and that of the baby).

After a year and a half and nearly 12k posts, the people I spend time with on Lit deserve notification.

Of course, I may in the coming months fade away anyway - becoming a pop-in/pop out poster.