Facebook still needs to work on what to do when users die

What happens to your Facebook account after you die? Well, that largely depends on who reports your death to Facebook first.

In 2015, Facebook announced in a press release that users would be able to name a “legacy contact,” or a person responsible for managing your account after you die. 

Legacy contacts can memorialize accounts and download all of an account’s data. They can even delete accounts completely. However, users can set preferences to have accounts memorialized or deleted after they pass away, and a legacy contact must abide by those specifications. Read more…

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