How to plan your Digital Will

People generally don't like to think about death but when they think about their own death, that' when they come up with a will for all their money, property and all their belongings. But what about your digital content like your Gmail messages and data from several other Google services if your account becomes inactive for any reason, in the worst case death. For all your Google services, you don't have to worry about your personal data from now on as Google has a free service for afterlife too to create your digital will.

With 'Inactive Account Manager' you can decide on what should happen to your photos, emails, documents and other data when you stop using your account. You might want your data to be shared with a trusted friend or family member or you might want your account to be deleted entirely.  You have the option to choose to have your data deleted after three, six, nine or twelve months of inactivity. Or you can select trusted contacts to receive data from some or all of the following services: +1s; Blogger; Contacts and Circles; Drive; Gmail; Google+ Profiles, Pages and Streams; Picasa Web Albums; Google Voice and YouTube. Google will  first warn you by sending a text message to your cellphone and email to the secondary address that was provided before their systems take any action of deleting or transferring the control.

It better to review your data before going for this option. You have an option to pull out all your Google data using Google Takeout [Link]. There is a similar option to pull out all your timeline data on Facebook using Facebook My Archive [Link].

Here is where you set using - Inactive Account Manager.

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