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PLANNING YOUR

DIGITAL AFTERLIFE

Y ou likely have a will drawn up to administer your property and assets
in the event of your death, but do you have a plan for your digital
assets and how they will be managed?
TWITTER has a form that can be used to request
In your daily life over the past decade or two, you likely have multiple deactivation of a deceased one’s Twitter account, but no
online accounts that may live on forever unless you plan ahead. Services like access to the account is granted.
Google, Facebook and Twitter have protocols for cases of death, but do you
have plans for your email accounts, Netflix subscription and other online
services you subscribe to? Are your hard drive backups encrypted? These all YAHOO will not
need to be in your plans. provide passwords
or allow access
to the deceased's
FACEBOOK turns your account into account, including
a Memorialized Account after you account content
pass away, and you can setup a Legacy such as email, but
Contact through the Security settings they will delete
on your Facebook account. The Legacy all account content after receiving documents including a
Contact can also share a final message letter and death certificate.
on your behalf or provide information
about a memorial service, and you can also grant this person permission to
download your Facebook posts and photos. The Legacy Contact cannot LINKEDIN will allow anyone connected to a person
delete your account or login to your account. confirm their death with a link to the obituary and some
other information that can be filled out on an online form.

GOOGLE has an Inactive Account
feature, you can specify in advance a NETFLIX You just
‘timeout period,’ which starts after you need to sign into
have not logged in for a certain time the account with
period. At that point, Google will the username and
attempt to contact you by text and email, password of the
then they notify trusted contacts you account holder, and
have set up with a letter you have written in advance regarding the Google then select cancel
account. Unlike Facebook, these trusted contacts have full access to delete streaming services
the account. under the Your Account menu.

Jeff Bohr | Naples Mac Help 239.595.0482 | jeff@jeffbohr.com