What’s Your Preference? What do you want to happen to your Facebook profile. Should it:
- be turned into a memorial
- be archived
- be deleted
- something else?
Let us know what you think.
What do you want to happen to your Facebook profile after you die?
Posted on 14 January 2010 by John Romano
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January 15th, 2010 at 6:52 am
Stay active, but with a reduced friend list of the people that were closest to me. That way they can leave me messages and no one will judge them. It will be good therapy for a while. And I am still a part of their lives, just not creating content anymore.
January 15th, 2010 at 9:58 am
That’s an interesting point–I never thought of a reduced friend list. I’m pretty sure I want mine to become a memorial, but now I’m considering a reduced set of friends, too.
January 25th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Response from Facebook:
Ben: Whatever makes my passing easier for my loved ones.
John: Using it as a memorial seems a popular way for people to grieve
Mordent: 1.) with the caveat that I want my friends to use the 3 grand I left in my Will to go to the beach and have a two day Bonfire party…. use the page to coordinate.