10/26/2026
What happens to your Facebook, Google, and Yahoo accounts when you're no longer around?
There are steps you can take right now to ensure you have a say in your online legacy.
An often-overlooked aspect of estate planning that is becoming more relevant each day is the handling of your social media, email, and other online accounts. These accounts contain a treasure trove of personal information, data, photos and other valuable assets such as digital downloads, airline & reward points, credit vouchers, cash, and cryptocurrency.
Unless you proactively plan for these digital accounts, your online life, after death, might continue indefinitely in ways you didn’t envision - with no one having any power to change it.
An often-overlooked aspect of estate planning is the handling of your social media, email, and other online accounts. While we don’t have a true “digital afterlife” as depicted in Amazon’s new show Upload, your online accounts contain a treasure trove of personal information, data, photos an...