Now that we have your attention, Life Insurance Finder would like to discuss what happens to your digital life after your physical life ends.
[Life Insurance Finder][3] published a detailed guide on how to prepare your Facebook profile and other digital accounts for the inevitable, recommending, among other things, the creation of a digital will and the nomination of a digital executor.
On the postmortem in general, Life Insurance Finder recommends:
A physical will covers your wishes for your physical self, as well as your physical assets after your death. But what about your digital life? Now that we live almost as much online as we do in the physical world, we need to have a plan for managing our digital deaths, too. In order to carry out your digital death plan, you will need to create a digital will, as well as select a trustworthy digital executor to handle arrangements for your digital assets and digital legacy once you are gone. Just remember not to put the passwords for your digital assets in your actual will, as wills are made public at death.
And on Facebook specifically:
In December 2009, [changes to their privacy policy][4] meant that the people behind Facebook began deciding on your behalf exactly how comfortable you were about sharing your information, and with whom, while you're still alive and quite capable of deciding for yourself. Upon your death, you'll not only have to worry about Facebook setting up public default settings, you'll also have your family deciding whether to deactivate, delete, download, or memorialize your profile. To do any of this, your family will still need your user name and password.
Three Facebook users die every minute. At this rate, that means that there will be 1.78 million Facebook accounts in limbo in 2011 because the majority of those users hadn't prepared for their digital death. That's the equivalent of the population of Western Australia, and as users and status updates continue to grow exponentially, how many deceased pages will there be in 10 years? How will Facebook and the probably non-tech-savvy families of these people manage this amount of digital content?
Readers: Do you have a plan in place for your digital death?
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[1]: http://www.allfacebook.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/DigitalDeathTeaser.jpg (DigitalDeathTeaser)
[2]: http://www.allfacebook.com/death-and-facebook-whats-your-status-2010-11 (Death And Facebook: What's Your Status?)
[3]: http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/infographics/what-happens-online-when-you-die/ (What Happens Online When You Die?)
[4]: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=deceased (Report a Deceased Person's Profile)
[5]: http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/infographics/an-illustrated-guide-to-preparing-for-death/an-illustrated-guide-to-preparing-for-death.jpg (Guide to Preparing for Digital Death)
[6]: http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/infographics/an-illustrated-guide-to-preparing-for-death/
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[11]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/allfacebook?d=pnQdOprp5To
[12]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/allfacebook?a=SXxSv0131j8:QMNl0X8wb_g:pnQdOprp5To
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[17]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/allfacebook/~4/SXxSv0131j8
URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allfacebook/~3/SXxSv0131j8/facebook-death-2011-11
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