Help your loved ones access your digital legacyĭealing with the finer details of your legacy can be easy to overlook, but by implementing a clear digital legacy plan, you can ensure your loved ones don’t experience the stress of seeing a social media account in your name when you’re no longer around. You can add a legacy contact by logging into Facebook and accessing the ‘settings’ feature, where you can navigate through the additional steps in order to add the contact. How to set a legacy contact on FacebookĪ legacy contact is someone who a person has chosen to take care of their social media account after they’ve passed away. LinkedIn enables you to create a memoralised digital legacy after death, while Instagram provides a similar service to the Facebook memorial page. It’s not only Facebook accounts that you can memorialise. For more details, you can read what a memorialised Facebook account looks like. This also adds a layer of security as it means someone would be unable to log into it with a password.īut how do you memorialise a Facebook account? You can complete an online form, and read Facebook’s instructions for how to change a Facebook account to ‘remembering’ (the word is shown next to the deceased person’s profile picture).
This creates a space where friends, family and well-wishers can share memories and tributes about the deceased. If you don’t feel comfortable deleting a loved one’s online presence, you also have the option to memorialise a Facebook account after someone has passed away.
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