Facebooking After death! Legacy Contact

What will happen to your Facebook account after you are dead?

Starting from today, someone can handle your Facebook account after your demise! How? You need to give that person legacy account privilege. This can be done through facebook website.

Before Facebook can freeze your account after receiving notice of your demise. During that period no one can manage your account.

Things really changed with the introduction of Legacy contact. Legacy user can update your status, upload picture on your behalf, accept friend request, change your profile picture and can delete your Facebook account. One thing this user cant do is accessing your inbox! Sound great! Even after your demise, Facebook really cares about your privacy.

Setting Legacy user is optional! And its only present to users from United states only as at now, but the social networking giant promise to bring the service to other countries.

Source: TNW

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