Ever wondered where your Facebook goes when you die?
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Facebook is a popular way to keep connected with family and friends on social media where you can share ideas, experiences, and pictures from your everyday life. For some Facebook acts as a full record of their life for individuals, where they can commemorate achievements and milestones in their life.
But what happens to your account when you die? What happens to all these precious memories and experiences after your death? Do they just dissappear?
Though it may be a little unpleasant to consider what will happen to your social media accounts when you pass away, all is not lost.
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You could find solace in the knowledge that your profile doesn’t have to vanish completely.
Facebook’s developers, Meta, have developed a number of solutions for users to save their Facebook profiles.
You can now choose to memorialise your Facebook profile in order to save it from being deleted.
The phrase “remembering” will be shown next to your name in this case.
Either you or your loved ones can request this confirmation while you are still alive. Alternatively, they can do so after your demise.
This practical choice makes sure that your loved ones can still access stuff like posts, messages, and images.
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The Facebook profile of the deceased individual will still have all of the original stuff they shared, and anyone who initially saw it will still be able to see it.
Keeping a person’s profile active assures that their account won’t show up in suggestions, friends lists, advertising, or birthday reminders in the event of their passing.
Facebook now gives users the opportunity to select a “legacy contact,” or a person who will have access to their memorialised profile and they can update profile photographs, cover photos, answer friend requests, manage tribute postings, and ask for the account to be deactivated if the family or friends’ thoughts change in the future.
It’s nice to see that social media is adapting after becoming such a huge part of everyday life and that loved ones can keep hold of the memories of a person when they pass.
