There’s no getting around it, death comes to all of us and in today’s world one of the more complex issues is what is left behind on social media. For a long time Facebook has had a brutal policy: ‘memorialize’ the profile by locking down all the privacy settings and restrict visibility to friends. Now the site has found a lighter touch.
“Starting today, we will maintain the visibility of a person’s content as-is,” said Facebook in a post entitled ‘Remembering Our Loved Ones’ by Community Operations Mangers Chris Price and Alexi DiSclafani. “This will allow people to see memorialized profiles in a manner consistent with the deceased person’s expectations of privacy. 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.”
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