Chapter 12. Email
Email is as important, if not more important, than your computers and devices. Even with the advent of Facebook, Twitter, and SMS messaging, email continues to retain a prominent role. In fact, four of the top fifteen most popular sites on the Internet are Web-based email sites.
As the most ubiquitous form of electronic communication, your email address serves as your unique identifier on the Internet. From a planning standpoint, it serves as another master key to your digital content. For most online accounts you receive an email message when you sign up. If you save these messages, you have a record of the account’s existence and perhaps the user name or password. But since email is a unique identifier, your heirs could probably ...
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