How do you let Facebook know someone has died? – [Answer] 2022

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To find your Facebook memorial page, use the Special Request for Deceased Person’s Account form. You will need to provide the deceased person’s complete name, email address, date of death, and the URL of their Timeline

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That’s a question that some people have been asking lately in the wake of Facebook announcing it would be using its members’ profiles to help alert family and friends about their deaths.

Facebook said in December it planned to begin testing “legacy contacts,” a feature that would tell users who should be notified when they pass away. It has since announced plans to test legacy contacts starting this month.

The legacy contact feature was rolled out on an opt-in basis, meaning you had to explicitly decide if you wanted your profile contacted after your death. Facebook users are also able to select up to five “legacy” contacts who will receive notifications about his or her death even if they weren’t Facebook friends with the deceased person—this group of “legacy” contacts can be selected from a list of the deceased’s Facebook friends, or existing contacts elsewhere.

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Facebook users who signed up for the feature will also have their accounts memorialized after they pass away. This means their profiles are locked down and can only be viewed by named Facebook friends or family members who want to preserve the account as a sort of digital shrine to the user. is who the feature is intended to help.

Facebook’s policy for their user’s applying is 16 years old: those who are younger than 18 must have been added by a parent or guardian and if you’re not of legal age, your friend can only receive updates from you. Facebook confirmed they will keep to this guideline when legacy contacts roll out and users under 18 will need a parent or guardian involved in memorialization if they want to opt-in to be contacted after death.

how do you plan on having your account managed after death? I have no clue what to do.. facebook should really educate their users about this feature and how it works. like if someone wants their profile to be memorialized, but they don’t want the kids of their friends from high school to see pictures of them when they were younger, then that can be an option too. Reply Delete

I don’t understand why Facebook doesn’t have a create an obituary page or something similar for death notification. It seems like such a simple thing that could save so much grief for family members and friends with social media accounts leaving them unexplained messages from dead people… Reply Delete

I think this is such an important conversation! I just stumbled on this article and found it so interesting. I don’t think any of us realized that we wouldn’t have control over our own accounts when we die. And that seems really wrong to me! I feel like if you had a Facebook account, your heirs should be able to manage them. There has to be some sort of family manager where they can update photos or edit the bio or something because there are things many people put in their bios like “to my best friend”, “my favorite niece/granddaughter/sister” – how could those stay up? It feels so personal and would seem pretty harsh for someone else to be viewing it. Most people would want certain pictures private as well, but again, without anything written down, how do you know which ones need to stay private? I feel like this is something Facebook should be addressing in a bigger way. Usually, when you sign up for something, there is some sort of contract that outlines things like how they will manage your account after death (I’m talking about the companies here). But with Facebook, it seems like these details were never put into place and now we’re stuck with them. It’s too bad because many people use social media sites to share pieces of their lives with family members and friends – many times even creating a digital legacy! It’s so sad that we wouldn’t have a say or control over what happened to our accounts… Reply Delete

Having been hit twice by deaths in my online life, I fully support the idea that you should be able to ‘leave instructions’ about your account. Beyond whatever moral right to privacy you have, it’s also a question of whoever is left behind having a better idea of what was going on with you online (and their relationship with… Read More Having been hit twice by deaths in my online life, I fully support the idea that you should be able to ‘leave instructions’ about your account. Beyond whatever moral right to privacy you have, it’s also a question of whoever is left behind having a better idea of what was going on with you online (and their relationship with…

I myself have had 2 relatives die and one still living whose Facebook page has become an issue for me. When I first started being her friend on Facebook she was very much into photography and shared lots of beautiful photos on her page. She has since passed, but the pictures are still there and I don’t think it’s appropriate for family members (some who may not even know she is deceased) to see these intimate photos of their loved one. In my case, I have decided to keep them posted just in case anyone wants to get in touch with me after all this time, but I do appreciate that people should be able to decide how they want their account handled if something were to happen. Reply Delete

I am sure someone will comment “but what about social media addiction?” Well… 1: a person can start an account without submitting any info, 2: if a person does submit info, they can still be removed from the account after death, or 3: there is also all of this information up here that you’re more than welcome to use to judge whether or not a person’s death was as addicting as it possibly could be. Delete

I’ve never had an issue with social media addiction until I read these comments! I’m shocked at how many people are having problems due to it. Delete

I have been noticing over the past few years, my mother-in-law’s behavior has started to change. She has become obsessive about Facebook and she posts so much every day… Her friend’s pages/posts (she is now 61) are on 12 different screens around her home. When we visit, she gets upset if someone else is on her computer. She seems to forget the conversation and get confused if you say anything that is even remotely about Facebook or any of her friends, their names come out of nowhere in the middle of a sentence! It has gotten worse over the past year (she moved at the same time). I think this is pretty sad. No one should have so much going on inside their head… So many different conversations running through it at once that they can not concentrate on anyone else for more than 5 minutes. (This is what she calls “craziness”) I feel bad because we are typical baby boomers, when did this happen? We were raised with morals and having manners & being children-like adults and not being so self-absorbed. Delete