Now you can choose who will use your Facebook Account after you die

Facebook is now allowing its users to choose what will happen to their accounts after they die. Now, Facebook users in the US will be able to choose to have their accounts deleted after death or grant permission to another person on Facebook to manage your account on their behalf. Facebook calls this person an account’s “legacy contact,” and users can choose that person through the website’s or app’s security page.


 If a user chose to set up a legacy contact, then that person will be able to change your profile photo, accept friend requests, and pin announcements on your account’s timeline after a notice of your death has been received by Facebook. A legacy contact will not be able to post to the account that they’re controlling, nor will they be able to view that person’s private messages. Facebook will also provide an option to let legacy contacts download a file containing an account’s photos, posts, and other information.

Earlier, Facebook provided a process to freeze accounts to death, but there was no way to set them up to be managed by someone else or automatically deleted. Setting up this legacy choice is optional, and Facebook says that they will roll out this setting eventually in other countries too.