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Social media is something you’re told follows you for life. What you post on social media is there forever for all to see, but when you are no longer here, what happens with your social media platforms?
For some, having the option to visit or even update the social media pages of a deceased person can offer comfort or they might want the account to be deleted permanently.
Planning for this eventuality is important, as you may need to provide them with a secure method of using your accounts and without it your loved ones could struggle to access your digital world.
It is estimated that around 30 million profiles on Facebook are memorialised. Some celebrity pages, such as David Bowie, have been left memorialised for their fans to post tributes to them.
Zenplans is a cloud-based digital estate planning tool. Think of it as a digital vault that holds all of your important personal, financial and digital information in one place.
With Zenplans, you have full control over who can access your data. Access can be given to trustees immediately after you lose mental capacity or pass away.
Loved ones can find it hard to piece together a deceased individual’s assets as everything is online. Zenplans helps eliminate the administrative burden when a loved one passes away.
Palmers now have a downloadable digital Zenplans guide to help you help your loved ones.
Each social media platform has different policies as to what they will do with your account after they have been notified of a death.
Most platforms that offer memorialisation services require you to make plans or provide permissions before your death. If this isn’t documented, this could end up becoming quite the lengthy process.
Platform requirements are as follows:
A legacy contact is someone who you authorise to access your digital accounts and manage your data after passing, it is an easier way for them to recover your accounts.
Zenplans is essentially a digital filing cabinet which contains details of all the accounts you have so that your executors know who to contact and the details.
Preserving your digital legacy is important to protect your loved ones from experiencing extra administrative stress during a time of grief and to ensure your digital footprint is left exactly as you would like.
Privacy is one of the main reasons why digital estate planning is necessary. It protects the decency of the deceased by allowing them to filter what the legacy contact can and cannot view, for example, messages.
Social media platforms also act as modern-day photo albums and it is where people share their lives for all to see.
It is important that there are proper measures in place so that these photo albums don’t get deleted if it is not what the deceased wishes.
While social media is a very important part of digital estate planning, there are some apps you may not consider when planning your digital estate.
Google and Apple both offer legacy contact options. For each one, you have to assign a legacy contact before you die so they can access and manage your data on behalf of the deceased.
Apple allows the legacy contact to have access to your iCloud once you have passed. They will need a death certificate and a unique access key to access the iCloud account. Once they are in, they have three years to manage or download data before the account is permanently deleted.
On the other hand, Google allows you to set up to ten legacy contacts and the Inactivity Account Manager allows you to decide what you wish to share of your account once you are dead.
Other examples that are included in legacy plans are:
Not setting up protocols for your social media accounts or wider digital estate after you die leaves your loved ones with another thing to worry about.
Make it simple and secure your online presence and explore our digital Zenplans guide to ensure your digital life is planned the way you want it to be.
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