[Netherrealmer]

If you have a monetized Youtube or facebook account, You must have someone who will takeover the account when you die because even if you stop uploading. It can still make money from royalties. Or they can continue your channel.

For non monetary reasons, The purposes of letting another person takeover your account if you die is to preserve your posts like the pictures of blogs. Some dead celebrities still have active social media accounts. When WWE wrestler Chyna died, her mother took over her account. She uses the account to sell her merch or make conventions for fans.

An Aunt of mine who died dont have monetized social media accounts but her children took over her account to keep her pictures safe.

[sprite1950]

When I die no one will handle my social media or other online accounts. I will just disappear but I imagine I will probably stop being active in them long before I die so I will just have no online presence any more.

[simplyfred]

I don't think there's someone to take over since I am the only one who knows my password on most site. Only my wife knows my FB but I don't know of she will continue...

[Netherrealmer]

If I am a private citezen and my accounts are not monetized, I will just let them die. If I am a celebrity of sorts, I will let my family keep the account for the monetization purposes.

[freelancermariagrace]

No one will handle my social media/websites as they do not know my passwords.

[peachpurple]

Nobody because my family members are npt keen to know what i wrote at social mediS either. Hence i guess it will be long forgotten by then

[chael]

My social media accounts are not monetized at all, so they can just fade away when I go. I do remember being asked by Facebook as to what I intend to do with my account when I die. I ignored it. I'm not very active on social media and I hardly upload photos or share anything. It's just amusing how Facebook is unaware that an account owner has died and it is still celebrating that user's friendship anniversary with another user.

[Netherrealmer]

My social media accounts are not monetized at all, so they can just fade away when I go. I do remember being asked by Facebook as to what I intend to do with my account when I die. I ignored it. I'm not very active on social media and I hardly upload photos or share anything. It's just amusing how Facebook is unaware that an account owner has died and it is still celebrating that user's friendship anniversary with another user.

Facebook just greeted my late Uncle a happy birthday and told him to have long happy life.

[peachpurple]

No one will handle my social media/websites as they do not know my passwords.

Same here, i guess that out social medis accounts and websites will be closed.

[OldGuy]

Most online accounts simply fade into the background, but they take a very long time to completely disappear. In most cases, the server it is on has to vanish before any content on it can vanish, and that is only if there are no copies somewhere else.

Unless some family member has advance knowledge of accounts and passwords, there is no one to maintain or delete the account or content. It just sits there. It is exceptionally rare for anyone to make a point of sharing accounts and passwords even with family.

Just out of curiosity, I have gone looking for old accounts and posts I no longer use. I have still been able to find content I posted way back in the early 1990s. There is no longer any way I could do anything myself with that old content. I don't remember the account names, passwords or security questions and no longer have the same address, email accounts, ip address or anything else to reverify my own identity to get back in.

That is why it is said that once posted online, it will live forever.

[sweerie_banana]

Hi @Oldguy? I think most accounts fade cause you need to make plans prior to your death. One needs to at least let their next of kin have a log-in password and keep the accounts and socials live.
They can even change the log information and keep the site alive even though you will be gone.

[mrki444]

I hope no one will. When I die, I want die everywhere. I also think nobody of my family would ever think about that.

[kat82]

First, I am not gonna die any time soon. Secondly, no one is ever going to manage my social accounts because I am the only manager.

[Hilda]

I prefer nobody does that, I is better my account remains like that. I am not a celebrity so I have no fans, I just prefer that things remain like that and nobody touches my accounts because they are personal.

[oldbuddy]

I have a complete manual written up so my wife can continue earning and pass it on to one of our grandkids when she passes on.

[Sojourn]

I think wills should be made for these online or digital properties of a deceased and maybe handed over to the person of choice that the deceased assigned.