If you're interested in setting this up, you can head to Google's Inactive Account Manager from your Google profile.

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The Death Manager lets you tell Google what to do with the data from all of your Google accounts, including most intimately, your Gmail messages, if your account goes inactive, presumably because you have gone to the great server farm in the sky.

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But as recent turmoil in the tiny but hugely important state of Delaware illustrates, it's not always clear what makes an account active or inactive.

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If you have intentions of allowing a friend or family member to have access to that data, you can set up the service to notify up to 10 people that your account has been inactive for the time you've specified.

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Google launched the service on its account settings page to give users options with their account should it remain inactive for an extended period of time.

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"Low inactive balances may drag down the average account balance for the plan, which can increase expenses to both participants and or plan sponsors, " he said.

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When given a Twitter account, the system reports how many users it thinks are fake, how many are inactive accounts (ie. could be real accounts but do not have much activity) and how many are active accounts.

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