Having read about privacy settings and how death is handled on Facebook I can't help bit think that one day there will be a “will” feature on Facebook. Hearing the story about the girlfriend who was removed from her recently deceased boyfriend's Facebook or the wife who's husband died four days after being married and the family that blames her for his death makes me think, what would the deceased want?
Having a will option is a very morbid thought but may be a necessary one if Facebook truly becomes part of our society. Some people may want to keep their image and online persona private after they die and may want their accounts removed. Other may want to be remembered by friends and have the memorial option. Still other may not want anything to change and keep their profile the way it is with the identity that it has.
Then again having a will option may end up like many of the other features on Facebook and be completely ignored. It will be interesting to see how Facebook or social networking sites in general evolve and react to people's lives, and deaths.
I never thought about death and Facebook accounts until this past summer. A friend of a friend passed away and I was Facebook friends with her. I know that her parents had to contact Facebook in order to get her Facebook deactivevated. I heard that it was a process and it took awhile for her Facebook account to disappear.
ReplyDeleteYeah it's a pretty wierd thing to go through. A friend of mine passed away a few years ago before Yeah it's a pretty weird thing to go through. A friend of mine passed away a few years ago before the whole memorial process and his account was deleted. I wonder what it would be like to see his account again. Part of me wants to but the other part doesn't.
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