Dealing With Your Digital Life in the Afterlife
August 26, 2009
Facebook puts your page into “memorial state.” Flickr keeps all your photos online. Yahoo! keeps your email safe and secure.
In most cases, online social networks and email services will keep your account and all the information in it private. A family member will have to show proof of death to access the account. Even then some services don’t give you complete access. Some will only give you a copy of the email messages, for instance.
See the whole article over at Time Magazine online.
Who knows, perhaps people will begin specifying aspects of their digital life in their wills.