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How to Memorialize Your Facebook Account (In Case You Died)

How to Memorialize Your Facebook Account

While having a Facebook account might be useful for you to update your life status to your friends, your Facebook account will not be much useful to you once you are dead. Therefore, you need to make sure in the case of your sudden demise in the future, what would happen to your Facebook account? Would Facebook delete it once it is no longer active or can someone still tag your account even after your death? Fortunately, Facebook has prepared their Facebook users for these circumstances. So, in case you died, you can choose to delete your Facebook account or memorialize it. However, you need to select a contact on your Facebook to be responsible for that task. Here we show you simple steps on how you can memorialize your Facebook account in case you died.

WHY MEMORIALIZE YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT?

There are many reasons why you should memorialize your FB account, here are some of the top reasons:-

  1. TO LET PEOPLE KNOW OF YOUR DEMISE – By memorializing your FB account, people in your Facebook contact will know of your demise and will no longer contact you using Facebook
  2. TO PRESERVE LEGACY – If you have uploaded many photos or memories in your Facebook, memorializing it might be best for you and your family in preserving the memories you have in your Facebook account so your future generation can still view them long after you died.
  3. TO DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT – Memorialising might also be the best way to delete your account so that marks the end of your social media presence.

So, if you are interested to learn how to memorialize your Facebook account, here are the steps.

Step 1

 At your Facebook account, tap at this three-dot icon here to enter profile settings

Step 2

 At the “Profile settings”, scroll down and tap at “Memorialisation settings”

Step 3

Here you can choose legacy contact in which you select one of your Facebook contacts to manage your Facebook account or choose to delete your account after your death

Step 4

Tap “Next” to start choosing your legacy contact

Step 5

Type in your friend’s name here

 Step 6

Your friend’s Facebook username will appear here. Tap to choose this contact as your legacy contact

Step 7

Facebook will send a message to your chosen legacy contact informing him or her that you have chosen him or her as the person to manage your Facebook account in case of your sudden demise. Tap “Send” to confirm

Make sure whoever you have chosen agreed in the first place to take this responsibility. Choosing your spouse or immediate family member should be the best approach.

So, that is it – simple steps on how to memorialize your Facebook account in case you died. Please leave us a comment below on whether you intend to use this function or not.

Please read our previous article on How to Hide Your Likes on Facebook