The social networking giant is giving its users command over what happens to their Facebook accounts when they die.
Until now, Facebook allowed people to plow the profiles of their loved i into "memorialized" accounts afterward Facebook verifies that someone has died, pregnant the concern human relationship could live viewed but non live managed or edited. But Facebook is instantly adding a novel selection that users tin select prior to their death: 'Legacy Contact'.
"Until now, when someone passed away, nosotros offered a basic memorialized concern human relationship which was viewable, but could non live managed past times anyone," the Facebook squad wrote inwards a blog post. "By talking to people who accept experienced loss, nosotros realized at that spot is to a greater extent than nosotros tin create to back upward those who are grieving as well as those who desire a tell inwards what happens to their concern human relationship afterward death."
The social network announced this novel characteristic Th that allows Facebook users to designate a specific friend equally users’ Facebook Legacy Contact who volition live allowed to access their concern human relationship as well as pivot a ship service on their Timeline afterward they die.
WHAT YOUR FACEBOOK LEGACY CONTACT CAN DO ?
Your Facebook Legacy Contact won’t live able to log inwards equally you lot or read your individual messages, but the contact volition live able to create the followings:
- Pin a ship service to display at the tiptop of your memorialized Timeline (to portion a lastly message or notification well-nigh a memorial service)
- Update your Profile Picture as well as Cover Photo
- Respond to novel Friend Requests
- Download an archive of your photos, posts, as well as profile data that you lot shared on Facebook
HOW TO ACTIVATE 'LEGACY CONTACT' FEATURE ?
In social club to conduct your Facebook Legacy Contact, follow the next steps:
- Open 'Settings'
- Choose 'Security'
- Select "legacy contact" at the bottom of the page.
- Submit the mention of your specific Facebook friend who volition live able to command for certain aspects of your page afterward you lot die.
- Choose the options you lot desire your Facebook Legacy Contact to have.
- Finally, the organization volition offering an selection to ship a message to that person, letting them know well-nigh their of import novel tasks.
Alternatively, users tin equally good allow Facebook know if they'd prefer to accept their concern human relationship deleted afterward they transcend away.
Facebook is rolling out these novel changes inwards the United States of America of America first, but plans to expand the changes to to a greater extent than regions.
