"Though maudlin to consider, it's important to think about what happens to your email and social networking accounts when you die. Will your relatives be able to gain access, or will the accounts simply fade away? That depends." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

I've been thinking about that for a while. A friend of mine died about three months ago and at least once a week, I get one of those stupid Facebook reminders, "you haven't talked to so and so in a while, write something on her wall" and I just feel my heart sinks to my feet :( and of course there's also her twitter account.... - Claudia Petrilli