Oh, so many….

Quick reality check: how many online accounts do you have?

Don’t guess. Actually think about it. Email accounts, banking apps, social media, streaming services, shopping sites, work platforms, cloud storage, photo services, subscription services, gaming accounts, dating apps you forgot to delete, that meditation app you tried once…

The average person has over 80 online accounts. Most of us reuse passwords (which we shouldn’t) or have passwords saved in our browser (which is convenient until someone else needs to access our accounts).

Now here’s the fun question: if something happened to you, how would your family access any of this?

Your phone is probably locked with Face ID or a fingerprint. Your computer might auto-login to everything, but good luck getting past the initial password screen. Your email accounts hold the keys to everything else, but if no one knows how to get into your email…

This isn’t a theoretical problem. Digital assets are real assets. You might have money in PayPay or cryptocurrency or online-only bank accounts. Your photos are probably in the cloud. Your work files, your personal documents, your entire digital life.

And unlike physical documents that you can find by searching through drawers, digital information just disappears if you can’t log in.

Welcome to the modern version of “I can’t find the key to the safety deposit box.”

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