You can post to your friends on FB and Twitter from the grave if you have an online last will and testament. Have you ever thought about what your last post on FB or your last Tweet would be before you die. God forbid you should have to worry about this anytime soon but some people have to deal with it now. Who will update your Facebook Status when you’re gone? What will happen to your Facebook or Twitter accounts when you’re no longer here to manage them? Some new online companies have come up with a solution to this problem.
According to Tim Waller, a television journalist for WYFF News in Greenville, SC, My Webwill is the largest online social site that can help you to execute your online last will and testament. When you register with My Webwill, you get to appoint two (2) web beneficiaries for your accounts. These beneficiaries are responsible for sending out death notices to My Webwill once you pass away. The way it works is, my Webwill sends the user names and passwords to your accounts that you’ve registered with them to your beneficiaries. They also send any instructions about your accounts that you leave to your beneficiaries. You can register up to ten (10) free accounts with My Webwill.
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Your account beneficiaries can post a final status update to your Facebook account or send a final prewritten email to your friends. As you can see, this is a responsibility you don’t want to leave to just anyone. Unfortunately it’s not just a matter of having a relative call Facebook or Twitter and cancel your account. Facebook doesn’t close accounts and take down pages once a member passes away. They do memorialize the pages of deceased members by keeping the page up minus any personal information. Your friends are the only people that can see these memorialized pages. The relatives of some deceased Facebook members don’t like the policy. They fought to have the policy changed but to no avail. If you don't like the policy, are you willing to go as far as cancelling your account?
Of course the simple low-tech soution is to write down your account numbers and passwords and give them to someone you trust with instructions for each of yor online accounts. With the changing nature of relationships these days it makes it tricky to choose a proxy. It calls for some wise choosing on your part. So what would you like to say for your final posts on Facebook or Twitter? Will posting from the grave become a fad or fancy?
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Something else to think about...what do you do if you are a writer or internet marketer with Adsense accounts or affiliate accounts? Some folks make a decent living working online.
Nice thought-provoking article!
I removed the comment and the user.
On another note, I have edited the above comment (removed the full link) because anything which links directly to a .zip folder can be extremely dangerous.