Since death is a normal part of life, have you ever wondered what will happen to your Facebook after you pass on? Facebook has given the issue serious thought and has made an important change on how best to treat the account of someone who has passed on, PCWorld reported.
It used to be that when someone with a Facebook account departs from this world, his or her loved ones can get in touch with the social media network so that the account can be memorialized. Once it becomes memorialized, only the user's friends will be able to see the account, the report said.
That has changed, however. In a post that detailed the change, Chris Price and Alex DiSclafani of Facebook Community Operations, wrote, "Starting today, we will maintain the visibility of a person's content as-is. This will allow people to see memorialized profiles in a manner consistent with the deceased person's expectations of privacy. We are respecting the choices a person made in life while giving their extended community of family and friends ongoing visibility to the same content they could always see."
This means that the posts of the deceased will be visible to anyone whom he or she chose it to be available to. The new change will only affect accounts that have already been memorialized, the report said.
According to the PCWorld report, the change highlights the serious consideration given by social media firms to the question: What should be done to someone's virtual identity after they pass on? This has become an important question as more people use and share personal information on social media platforms, the report said.
One company Eterni.me has found another interesting way to keep our dead loved ones alive in our memories. In their website, the firm said it gathers and processes the personal information of someone who died and then creates his or her avatar which friends and family can talk with, the report said.
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