The Rise of Digital Graveyards Is Much More Worrying Than You Think It Is [Video]

In this age of social media rife with new platforms that host entertaining content and ways to connect with people, do we even ask ourselves what happens to accounts that get abandoned or whose users finally pass away? The quick answer is that they continue to pile up online, with no means of knowing whether these accounts pass up technically as active and can remain online.

These accounts are called “digital legacy” accounts. While memorializing accounts is nothing but new, the sheer number of these accounts piling up in our digital spaces has given rise to a new phenomenon: digital graveyards. Worryingly, a new report from ExpressVPN highlights how there will be more inactive social media accounts in the next few decades than ever, taking up much-needed space for social media companies to handle active and inactive accounts.

How big of an issue is this, and what can we do to plan …