Facebook legacy contact: How to appoint a profile executor for after death

(Pocket-lint) - Thinking astir your integer bequest aft you dice is thing astir radical are starting to do, nary substance however morbid it sounds.

Facebook is 1 of the fewer services disposable that person an established mode of dealing with relationship absorption successful the lawsuit of a user's death, though Apple besides connection it. The thought is that a Facebook idiosyncratic tin acceptable an executor of sorts, officially known arsenic a bequest contact, who volition person constricted entree to their account. This volition let them to necktie up the relationship and permission it determination arsenic a memorial of the person's life.

So, however bash you acceptable your relationship for that inevitable day? And what volition hap erstwhile it's acceptable to go? Here's what you request to know.

What happens to your Facebook aft death?

Your Facebook relationship tin beryllium deleted aft death, oregon it tin beryllium memorialised with a bequest interaction appointed arsenic an relationship manager.

Memorialise your account

A memorialised Facebook relationship shows the connection "Remembering" adjacent to the person's sanction connected their profile. Depending connected the privateness settings of the account, friends tin inactive stock memories connected the memorialised profile, and contented that the idiosyncratic shared remains disposable to the assemblage it was shared with originally. Most importantly, nary 1 tin log into a memorialised account, and without a bequest contact, it can't beryllium changed.

• A Facebook relationship volition beryllium memorialised aft Facebook becomes alert of your passing. Learn however to petition the memorialisation of an relationship from here.

What is simply a Facebook bequest contact?

A bequest interaction is idiosyncratic you tin take to negociate your relationship if it's memorialised. They indispensable beryllium 18 years oregon older and a Facebook user.

If you adhd a bequest contact, they can:

1. Write a pinned station for your profile, similar stock a last connection connected your behalf.
2. View posts, adjacent if you had acceptable your privateness to Only Me.
3. Decide who tin spot and station tributes, if the relationship has an country for tributes.
4. Delete tribute posts.
5. Change who tin spot posts that you're tagged in.
6. Remove tags of you that idiosyncratic other has posted.
7. Respond to caller person requests, similar aged household members who weren't yet connected Facebook.
8. Update your illustration representation and screen photo.
9. Request the removal of your account.
10. Turn disconnected the request to reappraisal posts and tags earlier they look successful the tributes conception if you had timeline reappraisal turned on.
11. Download a transcript of what you've shared connected Facebook if you person this diagnostic turned on.

So, by choosing a idiosyncratic to person entree to your Facebook relationship aft death, you're not leaving your deepest secrets to them. Access is limited.

If you adhd a bequest contact, they can't:

1. Log successful to your account.
2. Read your messages.
3. Remove immoderate of your friends oregon marque caller person requests.

How to name a Facebook bequest contact

You tin adhd oregon region a bequest interaction successful your relationship settings astatine immoderate time.

To adhd a bequest contact:

1. Click the drop-down arrow successful the apical close of Facebook and click Settings.
2. Select Settings & privacy, past click Settings.
3. Click Memorialisation settings.
4. Type successful a friend's sanction successful Choose a friend and click Add.
5. To fto your person cognize they're present your bequest contact, click Send.

Note: To alteration oregon region a bequest contact, travel steps 1-2 above, past click Remove. From there, you tin adhd a caller bequest interaction if you'd like.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 27 July 2015.