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What happens to your internet accounts when you pass away!
mal2pool
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Just wondered when you die, sorry for being morbid, but what happens to all your internet stuff. Will your facebook account/ all accounts be shut down after they are not used in a while and will you continue to get emails,etc.
I'll have to take my tablet with me when i go just incase !
I'll have to take my tablet with me when i go just incase !
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Thats reasuring , when i get reincarnated !
Not necessarily.
Some of the online accounts may get automatically deleted after a set period of time, due to owner inactivity, i.e. having not been accessed. Anyway, nobody should be able to modify these accounts, unless you've left a list of passwords lying around.
Statistically there'll be several million deceased Facebook users, maybe 30 million, I don't expect many of those accounts will have family members going through the procedures to delete them so they'll remain in place.
DS is getting long in the tooth now it'll have its own set of dead users, no one would know if I popped my clogs on DS, except perhaps some people might think I was making more sense than usual..
Most of the now-deceased people I've known of with social media accounts seem to have had family members take over. The larger sites have set policies about how to go about it if they haven't already shared passwords, e.g.
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/398036060275245
I'd miss you! Yeah people could continue your accounts if they know all your passwords. Think I'll leave them somewhere
Facebook pages can become memorials at the request of a verified family member.
Better remove the Facebook account then.
When my father died I managed to access some of his internet accounts and I closed them myself. With Amazon, I sent them an email telling them my father had passed away and I wished for his account to be closed, I also let them know that I was an Amazon customer as well. Within a couple of minutes of me sending the email to Amazon, one of their reps called my mum's house, to confirm that the email was genuine. The rep stated that he got our telephone number from both my account and my father's account. Once we confirmed the email was genuine my father's account was deleted.