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Facebook Adds Legacy Contact Feature In Case You Die Before It Does

Posted by samzenpus on from the after-you're-gone dept.

alphadogg writes "Facebook has added an option for users to delegate management of their account for when they die. The idea is to avoid awkward lingering Facebook pages after a person passes on, perhaps featuring images or posts that someone would rather not be remembered by....This isn't the first time Facebook has put thought into what happens to users' accounts when the users die. A year ago the social network outlined a more flexible approach to memorializing accounts. Now memorialized accounts will have the word "Remembering" hovering above a person's name.

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  1. Let me guess.... by chrism238 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ....the Legacy Contact has to be an existing Facebook user? How much inbreeding can the human race withstand?

  2. the problem here is ... by swell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How do you monetize the page of a dead person?

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  3. Re:Is there an option by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To simply delegate removal by someone upon death?

    Leave instructions and your password with your attorney? Or set of attorneys in disparate jurisdictions using Shamir's Secret Sharing, if you're totally paranoid?

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