A digitized self uploaded to a cloud would be a novel kind of entity

Evidence

Is a digitized remnant of a former human stored on a flash drive or computer cloud a person? What will “life” be like when, instead of posting images of your escapades on your Facebook page, “you” are a Facebook page? What kinds of interactions will you have with fellow virtual people “tweeting” and “digging” you in cyberspace? — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 389

Categorization

  • STORYSTEM: A speculative fiction spark: a story told from the point of view of a person who has become a Facebook page, facing the collapse of their social platform.
  • FICTION: Echoes We and its treatment of engineered uniformity, plus the persona-as-product anxieties in White Noise.