In addition to a will and perhaps a trust, proper estate
planning includes making an inventory of assets that you own. When considering your assets, be sure to
include your digital estate. Every year,
a larger percentage of our lives and business involve online interaction and most
people own digital assets even if they do not realize it. Email accounts, blogs, websites, social media
accounts, online banking accounts and music are just a few of the digital
assets you may own.
One way to manage your online assets is to use a digital
afterlife service. Such services
organize your accounts, passwords and online information and are quickly
becoming popular as a method of planning for your digital estate.
Digital giant, Google also recently introduced a feature
that allows you to decide in advance what to do with your Google related
accounts after you die. The tool controls
many different Google services including Gmail, Google Plus, Blogger, Picassa,
YouTube and several others.
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