Q: What's the best way to deal with social media accounts in my will?
A: You can provide user names and passwords in separate instructions to your executor, either kept with your will or separately. Your will can specify that your executor follow those separate instructions. Those user names and passwords are likely to change from time to time, so that would be easier than putting them in your will. Different social media sites have different policies on terminating their accounts or inactivating them and retention of information, and those are likely to change also. All of that will have to be kept up to date in your instruction letter, or it won't be of any use to your executor.
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