My husband and I need to update our wills.
The task is long overdue, but when it comes to this stuff, procrastination rules
the day. I paid attention, though, when I came across a brief article about the
importance of letting your family know what you want to do with your social media
presence after you’re gone. Honestly, I’d never thought about this before, but
I also realized that I needed to address this with my family. You see, I have
many networking sites, and they only know about two of them, let alone the
passwords for each. If I passed away tomorrow, where would they find my long
list of passwords?
The other issue is what, if anything, do I
want to leave behind on social networking? It didn’t take me long to
decide that I want it all gone after I pass, but this won’t be true for
everyone. Those who liberally share photos of growing family members might want
to leave a legacy for future generations. Perhaps there are pieces of writing
or blogs that they want others to enjoy. It’s a decision that each of us must
make, but once you’ve made it, you’ve got to let someone you trust know about
your wishes. Whether you leave something in your will with the location of your
passwords, or do it another way, is up to you. This brings me to another recent
article, I read in PC Magazine.
The article states that Facebook will now
let you provide a “legacy contact”, which is a person who will post
announcements and messages on your “memorialized” timeline. The legacy contact
will not be able to log in as the deceased or access private messages. The
article provides instructions about how you can add your legacy contact.
I can see where this idea will appeal for
some, but probably not for me. I do know that at least two of my 300+ FB friends passed away quite some time ago, yet their FB pages still remain up and
dormant. It’s rather disconcerting. It also makes me wonder how many other
people on FB are now deceased? Maybe some are still alive but for health or
other reasons just don’t participate anymore and never intend to.
Personally, I prefer to tie up loose ends.
If I disappear just because I’m bored and don’t want to do participate in
blogging or social networking anymore, I’ll let you know.
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