If you have a Facebook page of your own, now you can make things easier on your friends and/or family by designating a This new feature allows the person of your choice -- a close friend, your spouse, your child -- to manage parts of your Facebook account, the better to announce your passing and properly memorialize your life.
Step 1: Open Facebook, click Settings, and then click Security
Step 2: Click the Legacy Contact option, then click the "Choose a friend" field and start typing the name of the person you want. (Remember, this being Facebook, everyone is a "friend." Obviously you can choose a relative if you want.)
Step 3: Review the notification message your contact will receive and make any desired changes. (I found it a pretty formal message to send to my wife.) Then click Send.
Step 4: If you want, check the Data Archive Permission box, which would allow your contact to download posts, photos, videos and/or other content from your account. Click Close and you're done.
In the unfortunate event you pass on, your contact will still need to inform Facebookand submit a memorialization request. Once that's approved, he or she can write a post for display atop the memorialized Timeline, respond to new friend requests, and update the profile picture and cover photo.
Here's hoping no one needs this feature anytime soon.
Source:CNET
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