Facebook Facebook now lets you choose someone to manage your account after you die

[Tharixxx]

Facebook is a place to share and connect with friends and family. For many of us, it’s also a place to remember and honor those we’ve lost. When a person passes away, their account can become a memorial of their life, friendships and experiences.

Today we’re introducing a new feature that lets people choose a legacy contact—a family member or friend who can manage their account when they pass away. Once someone lets us know that a person has passed away, we will memorialize the account and the legacy contact will be able to:

• Write a post to display at the top of the memorialized Timeline (for example, to announce a memorial service or share a special message)
  
• Respond to new friend requests from family members and friends who were not yet connected on Facebook
  
• Update the profile picture and cover photo
  

If someone chooses, they may give their legacy contact permission to download an archive of the photos, posts and profile information they shared on Facebook. Other settings will remain the same as before the account was memorialized. The legacy contact will not be able to log in as the person who passed away or see that person’s private messages.

Alternatively, people can let us know if they’d prefer to have their Facebook account permanently deleted after death.

Until now, when someone passed away, we offered a basic memorialized account which was viewable, but could not be managed by anyone. By talking to people who have experienced loss, we realized there is more we can do to support those who are grieving and those who want a say in what happens to their account after death.

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[AlexCross]

It's the dumbest thing I have ever heard :))

Until now, when someone passed away, we offered a basic memorialized account which was viewable, but could not be managed by anyone.

How did they know that one died? :))

[dMog]

holy crap facebook...let people go when they die....i mean really!!!!!!!!! next thing you know when you create your account you will have to give up your soul to facebook...maybe that is already in the fine print and you are all doomed

[iih1]

so do i just heard today