A Facebook 'Legacy Contact' can manage your digital afterlife
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A designated person will be able to handle your posthumous profile page.
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Re: A Facebook 'Legacy Contact' can manage your digital afterlife
Giving people control over what happens to this stuff when they die sounds like a good move to me.
Any criticisms of the change anyone?
Re: A Facebook 'Legacy Contact' can manage your digital afterlife
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BlueScream
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Any criticisms of the change anyone?
Not that I can think of.
What does especially seem like a good idea to me is ...
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If preferred, users can also elect to have their FB presence deleted entirely.
That would be my choice. Of course, since I don't gave an FB presence in the first place, it'll be tricky either for FB to delete it, or a 'digital heir' to inherit it.
That said, giving the account creator at least some control over what they want to happen to it after their demise seems like a step in the right direction.