Saving You Money For Life

The majority of us are active on email, social networking and photo-sharing sites, but have you ever thought about what happens to them after we die. They don’t just disappear when we’re no longer around to manage them, so what happens to the content? Time.com provides tools for managing your online life after death:

• Some email services allow relatives to order a CD of all the messages in a deceased user’s account if they provide a death certificate and proof of power of attorney. Some require a copy of an e-mail the deceased sent to the petitioner.
• Social networking sites, like Facebook, allow families to request that the deceased profile be taken down or to be kept in a “memorial state,” which removes special features and only allows close friends and family to post comments on the wall.
• Photo sharing sites, like Flickr, will keep a deceased’s account running and mostly open to the public, but if they had marked any photos as private, the site won’t let family or friends into the account to access them.

In addition to buying term life insurance, think about what you can do now to plan for the unexpected. Your online life is just one of the things that will have to be sorted out when you’re no longer around.

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