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Philosophy Nov 10, 2025

Digital Legacy: What Happens to Your Data?

We spend our lives building physical legacies. But in 2025, our most defining moments happen online. How do we preserve them?

We spend our lives building physical legacies—houses, wealth, heirlooms. But in 2025, our most defining moments happen online. The jokes we share, the art we create, and the memories we capture are often locked inside proprietary platforms that could disappear tomorrow.

The 'Rented Land' Problem

When you post on mainstream social media, you don't own that memory; the platform does. If they ban your account or shut down their servers, your history vanishes.

Yearbook Inc. was built on a simple premise: your data should be yours. We provide tools to export, backup, and pass down your digital yearbook to the next generation.

Preserving this data isn't vanity; it's history. It is how your great-grandchildren will know who you really were, beyond just a name on a family tree. It is the difference between being a statistic and being a story.