EverTomb Lets You Set Up a Digital Tomb for When You Die

You spend a lot of time maintaining your Facebook profile and Twitter account for posterity; why not decorate an actual tomb for yourself?

EverTomb is a new service that wants you to end your Facebook and Twitter-based lives in favor of setting up your very own eternal digital tomb.

Yes, you read that right: a digital tomb.

For $1 per month, EverTomb will let you create a web-based tomb that you can then decorate with a variety of features, in order to let everyone that visits the page know how cool you are/were.

The idea is to make a kind of living memorial for yourself, despite the fact that you are very much alive. It’s all a bit tongue-in-cheek, as the fine print makes clear. It includes the instructions to “let people know that you died online, or just prepare for the afterlife like a great  digital Pharaoh.”

Or, EverTomb encourages, you can, “creep the **** out of people, make people hilariously laugh, show greatness like a god of the internet, and even use it as a resume to really get that great new job.”

I’m not a professional recruiter or human resources professional, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t hire someone who sent me their satirical social media memorial as part of their resume.

Anyway, EverTomb does not yet have anything in the way of examples of what its digital tombs will looks like, as the site says they are still under construction. But if you sign up while the service is in its beta, the company will take care of the fees to maintain your memorial in perpetuity.

Oh, that’s right. It costs $1 per month to have your online presence saved forever. So you’ll want to keep that money flowing or your tomb will quickly disappear, along with any trace of your social media existence. Which, when you think about those pictures from the Christmas party, might not be such a bad idea.

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