online accounts after you pass away

[mollykins]

I know it's the not most important thing in the world, but with stuff like bank account if someone dies you show death cetificates etc to someone there an apropriate steps are taken to deal with the account.

But what about online stuff, such as facebook and answerbank? There a facebook page that says something about in 100 years time, facebook will be full of accounts of dead people' and what made me think about it more was hearing about a boy form my high school who has days to live and there's a facebook page that had get well messages on it, when there was hope, but there hasn't been anything posted for a few days now, but there is a link to his page . . . .

[murraymints]

Perhaps the accounts are closed after a period of inactivity....when I left Scotland to go south I left a few pounds in RBS account for when I eventually returned..opening Barclay account whilst in England... only to find that 15 years with no activity had resulted in it being closed even though I had left money in it to keep it live !

[mollykins]

Have you aeen the futurama episode where fry had put a couple of dollars into a bank account in the 1990s and when he went 1000 years into the future, he was rich from all the interest . . . I'm guessing that would never happen then.

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah organisations seem to have the right to steal.
As for the Internet, ah they say you're on there forever, but I suspect it's just for longer that you'd like. Storage costs, even though the price is continually reducing, and medium don't have infinite life.

[Old_Geezer]

Hmmmm he may have had a large number of dollars, but probably spend them all on the bus to get to the bank. Inflation is rarely behind interest rates.

[murraymints]

not with RBS Molly !

[mollykins]

yeah o-g, the people who have to pay for the web hosting don't want to have to pay for pages that aren't being used, I know a few websites that delete you after so long of inactivity.

[mollykins]

Is there a limit to how much info could ever be on the internet?

[NazNomad]

lol, it's like the April Fools joke in Red Dwarf.

"Also you left £17.50 in a bank account. Thanks to compound interest you now own ninety-eight percent of all the world's wealth, but since you've hoarded it for three million years nobody's got any money except for you and NorWEB."

"Why NorWEB? "

"You left a light on in the bathroom. I've got a final demand here for one hundred and eighty billion pounds."

[mollykins]

I've never watched reddwarf, did that have Craig Charles in it?

[NazNomad]

That's the one ...

[NazNomad]

lol, :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEu0o62ycmg

[ChuckFickens]

Red Dwarf is an absolute classic!

(would anyone like some toast?)

[karenmac60]

I know my sister's friend is still on Friendsreunited and she died about 8 years ago. Every time I go on she comes up as someone I might know, it's quite depressing cos she was only young.

[alexanderd]

karen I am not on Facebook but just wondering can you let them know your friend has passed away?

[karenmac60]

It's friendsreunited Alexanderd, and I have thought about it, but I don't think it's my place really. Her husband knew she had an account with them and he has never had it removed - maybe it is a comfort to him or maybe he's just never got round to it, but I would think it was his choice.

[hc4361]

Nothing is totally obliterated from cyberspace. What you put on FB at 15 may still be read by others many years later.
May not be immediately available, but it's there, somewhere.
Let that be a warning to you, young Molly.

[mollykins]

Awww karen . . . .

HC I have my profiles for stuff like that set so only friends can see it, and I'd never post 'bad' stuff seeing as i have family as friends, the main reaosn why i joined FB was to keep intouch with them, that reminds me, I need to ask a longlost friend of mine something i've been meaning to for ages.