One of my childhood friends, who was also a Facebook friend, died in 2009. Yet I still get messages from Facebook encouraging me to connect with his Facebook page. Has that ever happened to you? Or have you ever sent an email to a colleague, only to learn from other sources that the person is deceased? What happens to their digital content? Who has access to their social media accounts and webmails? Barring a court order, the surviving family members may have no right to private content, webmails or anything posted on social media sites.
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Where Your Social Media Accounts Go When You Die
Posted by: Peter S. Vogel May 8, 2013 05:00 AMOne of my childhood friends, who was also a Facebook friend, died in 2009. Yet I still get messages from Facebook encouraging me to connect with his Facebook page. Has that ever happened to you? Or have you ever sent an email to a colleague, only to learn from other sources that the person is deceased? What happens to their digital content? Who has access to their social media accounts and webmails? Barring a court order, the surviving family members may have no right to private content, webmails or anything posted on social media sites.