Facebook changes privacy setting to keep your profile intact after you die

snoopy · Feb 23, 2014

Facebook changes privacy setting to keep your profile intact after you die
Daniel Bitonti, CTVNews.ca
Published Friday, February 21, 2014 6:28PM EST

A small change to Facebook’s privacy settings will keep the profiles of deceased users exactly the same as it was before they died, underlining the new digital reality that what you do online will forever be immortalized.

When a Facebook user dies, their profile is “memorialized” on the request of a friend or family member. But up until Friday, Facebook’s memorializing policy stated that only Facebook friends of the deceased user could see the profile in question once it was memorialized, regardless of whether the person had a private or public profile before their death.

The change is small, but significant. The new policy, announced Friday in a press release, will keep a deceased person’s profile “as is.” This means that if you have a profile that was open to the public (meaning that everyone online could see your profile) it will remain so once you die. If it was private, it will remain private.

“This will allow people to see memorialized profiles in a manner consistent with the deceased person's expectations of privacy,” Facebook said in its release. “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.”

The lesson for now: if you don’t want strangers scrolling through your photos once you’re dead, change your privacy setting ASAP.
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Read more here: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/face...p-your-profile-intact-after-you-die-1.1698603

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