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Facebook Is Introducing a New 'Tributes' Section For Memorialized Accounts (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the virtual-grave dept.

Facebook is rolling out a new "Tributes" section for memorialized accounts that will allow people to leave messages that are separate from the rest of the profile's timeline. "Depending on a memorialized account's privacy settings, friends can currently still post on its timeline, including in the comments of posts the person made before they died," reports TechCrunch. "If a memorialized account has a Tributes section, however, posts made after the day it was memorialized (which prevents anyone else from logging in) will be placed there." From the report: Some Facebook users who have designated "legacy contacts" to manage their accounts after they die were alerted to the new feature by a notification today that contained the euphemistic phrase "if your account is memorialized." A page on Facebook's Help Center describes the new tributes section "as a space on memorialized profiles where friends and family can post stories, commemorate a birthday, share memories and more."

"Legacy contacts" will have more leeway over tribute posts than they do over the rest of the account. For example, they have the ability to decide who can see and post tributes and can delete posts. They can also change who can see posts the deceased person is tagged in or remove the tag. If the account had timeline review turned on, the legacy contact will be able to turn it off for tribute posts. Posts made to a profile after it is memorialized will be separated into the tributes section. The feature's help page says "we do our best to separate tribute posts from timeline posts based on the info we're given." Legacy contacts still can't log into accounts, read private messages or remove and add friends.

30 comments

  1. That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Someday, when Facebook becomes the next MySpace, it will mean the loss of a lot of memorials, unless the Wayback Machine is capturing this stuff.

    1. Re:That's a weird kind of graveyard. by iggymanz · · Score: 2

      so what, most graveyards are forgotten with time too.

      Here's a better idea, don't worry about it. Die and be forgotten. For most people odds are in 100 years no one will give a shit about you. Get over it.

    2. Re: That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Right now, people don't give a shit about most of us.

    3. Re: That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      Donald Trump, is that you?!?

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    4. Re: That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Trump, we realize you want to make a wall just so some day people have to tear it down.

    5. Re: That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someday, when Facebook becomes the next MySpace, it will mean the loss of a lot of memorials

      Oh well. Build a proper memorial if you give a shit. I'm putting in my will that my memorial will be made of acorns that will begone in a year so that the living can move on without obsessing over my death.

    6. Re: That's a weird kind of graveyard. by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      What's funny is that he will be remembered, as 45th president. The rest of us mostly won't but so what.

    7. Re:That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Then again, considering how interesting the life of the average FB user is, imagine how interesting they are in death.

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    8. Re: That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      So what, Stalin will be remembered forever.

      Being remembered isn't necessarily something you want to achieve.

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    9. Re:That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's why I deleted my late spouse's profile from social media sites as soon as the one year mark hit. Plus FB wasn't smart on popping up reminders of places I checked in with them so those little reminders turned into sad memories.

    10. Re:That's a weird kind of graveyard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      For most people odds are in 100 years no one will give a shit about you.

      I would say that's true for all people. No matter how famous you are or what you have done in your limited lifespan, people will stop regularly talking about you a year after you die. Ten years after you die, you will almost never be mentioned. A hundred years after you die, nobody will remember you. People like historians might know of some of the things that you did, but nobody will actually know you.

      People who worry about leaving legacies are insecure morons. Just live, don't stress, have as much fun as you can, treat others kindly (even if they don't deserve it) and die gracefully. Even the universe is finite, so one day not so much as a trace of any life will exist.

  2. This should be memorialized. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5759411/Stone-Order-20190305-Abj.pdf

  3. Rest in piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Amen

  4. How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can we get more stories that don't include any of these companies: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon

    1. Re:How about by lgw · · Score: 1

      Can we get more stories that don't include any of these companies: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon

      Sure! Half the stories will be about BitCoin, Net Neutrality, gender imbalance in STEM, and global warming.

      Hey, it's better than the days where half the stories were Jon Katz's blog! (And fuck me, that was 20 years ago. When did I get old?)

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    2. Re: How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fucking right? The getting old part, not the Jon Katz part - holy shit if we knew how pathetic Slashdot would become, would we really given him the business like we did?

    3. Re:How about by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      The sad part is that today we actually miss the Katz stories...

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  5. Tributes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    They really should have looked up internet slang before going with that name. This could get messy...

    1. Re:Tributes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Especially with the kind of photos young women post nowadays.
      Bonus points for indian idiots that have loads of problem getting the context of things.
      "Why are so many pecker fotos vomiting stuff appearing in Diana's tribute section? ;-P"

  6. obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tribute?! You steal men's souls, and make them your slaves!

    1. Re:obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >> Perhaps the same could be said of all religions...
      >> What is a man? Nothing but a misogynist pile of sexism! But enough talk... Have at you!

  7. "Tributes" by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

    Went there looking for pictures of Mazda SUVs... was terribly disappointed!

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  8. This is not the best social network in the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    facebook is just a tribute...

  9. Hmm, tacky and crass given that this is Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Given that Facebook is a effectively the boil on the ass of the Internet, I find this a little crass and the deeper motive behind it being that somewhere FB is making cash from ads from this. Can you imagine your local priest or clergy putting up ad hoardings around famous graves and lesser ad hoardings around normal people's graves, then asking people for their details as they enter the churchyard? FB, let it go and give the deceased and departed some dignity.

  10. I see dead people... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I see dead people aren't as profitable as FB thought.

    Maybe at least our dead can get a little privacy. Something to look forward to.

  11. This being FB by nospam007 · · Score: 1

    ...so the 'tributes' will be along the lines "I'm glad the fucker is dead' or 'good riddance!'

  12. Re:Hmm, tacky and crass given that this is Faceboo by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    WWJD?

    Time for some table flipping...

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  13. Can you declare yourself dead? by Opportunist · · Score: 2

    Maybe that's the way to eventually get rid of your FB account? Not to mention, messing with their data collection in and by itself would be a good reason to "die" for them.

    No longer "you're dead to me", today it's "I'm dead to you"!

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  14. Perfect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just how I'd love my family and friends to memorialize me: on a social media account that will be first forgotten and then deleted when the service inevitably loses popularity and folds.