In Case of Emergency

[xenith]

Do you have someone among your family or immediate real life friends who, in the invent of you being seriously injured or detained, has been instructed to contact your online friends? (e.g. "email Fred" or "post a comment on my LJ")

And, among your online friends, is there anyone who has contacts details for a friend/ relative (distant enough they're not likely to be involved in an accident, close enough they'd know) so they can be contacted if you disappear for a couple of weeks?

Because we'd worry!
And, in the worst case, we might never know :(


(Of course, if you have family and close friends who are part of your online circle, this is less of a problem, but they might not know the best way to inform others or assume someone else will take care of it.)

Comments

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

I've kind of assumed that word would leak out.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

I think we tend to, but...

Although, you seem to have friends who you know both online in and in real life, so you're probably right. For me, the two groups don't seem to much overlap.

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

My main hope is that people don't find out on youtube.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

LOL

(Now I have to get that out of head.)



(I think it's stuck there, forever.)

[kaelajael.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my groups don't have very much overlap either.
And that's not something I'd really considered...
And even in RL I have a number of distinct circles with virtually no overlap.

[aulus-poliutos.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it. The only one who knows my pen name and occasionally reads my blog is my father, but he's not comfortable writing in English, and I'm not sure he'd think about that my online friends may be worried because he has no such virtual circle. My brother doesn't care about my hobbies and therefore never reads my blog, and the rest of the damn relations will never ever learn my pen name.

Real life friends? What's that?