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What Happens To My Facebook Account When I Die?

Download Graphics to View You can choose to either appoint a legacy contact to look after your memorialized account or have your account permanently deleted from Facebook. If you don’t choose to have your account permanently deleted, it will be memorialized if Facebook becomes aware of your passing.

Memorialized accounts are a place for friends and family to gather and share memories after a person has passed away.

Memorialized accounts have these key features:
  • The word “Remembering” will be shown next to the person’s name on their profile.
  • Depending on the privacy settings of the account, friends can share memories on the memorialized timeline.
  • Content the person shared (example: photos, posts) stays on Facebook and is visible on Facebook to the audience it was shared with.
  • Memorialized profiles don’t appear in public spaces such as in suggestions for People You May Know, ads, or birthday reminders.
  • No one can log into a memorialized account.
  • Memorialized accounts that don’t have a legacy contact can’t be changed.
  • Pages with a sole admin whose account was memorialized will be removed if Facebook receives a valid memorialization request.
A legacy contact is someone you choose to look after your account if it’s memorialized. Facebook strongly suggests setting a legacy contact so your account can be managed once it’s memorialized. A legacy contact can accept friend requests on behalf of a memorialized account, pin a tribute post to the profile, and change the profile picture and cover photo. If the memorialized account has an area for tributes, a legacy contact will be able to decide who can see and who can post tributes.

You can choose to have your Facebook account permanently deleted. This means that when someone lets Facebook know that you’ve passed away, all of your messages, photos, posts, comments, reactions, and info will be immediately and permanently removed from Facebook.

To request that your account be deleted:
  1. Click the downward arrow in the top right of your Facebook page.
  2. Select Settings & Privacy, then click Settings.
  3. Click Memorialization Settings.
  4. Scroll down, click Request that your account be deleted after you pass away, and click Delete After Death.

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Protect Your Child From Identity Theft

Watch Out For Charity Scams Child identity theft happens when someone takes a child’s personal information and uses it to commit fraud. They could apply for government benefits, open a bank or credit card account, apply for a loan, or sign up for a utility service.

Here’s what you can do to protect your child from identity theft:
  1. Ask questions before giving anyone your child’s Social Security number.
    • Why do you need it?
    • How will you protect it?
    • Can you use a different identifier?
    • Can you use just the last four digits of the Social Security number?

  2. Protect documents with personal information.
    Keep documents with your child’s personal information in a safe place, like a locked file cabinet. When you decide to get rid of those documents, shred them before you throw them away.

  3. Delete personal information before disposing of a computer or cell phone.
    Your computer and phone might contain personal information about your child.

  4. Freeze your child’s credit.
    There’s no reason for most children to have credit reports, since it’s illegal for anyone under 16 to apply for a loan or credit card in their own name. Fraudulent loan and credit card applications can generate credit reports, however, and by the time you or the child discovers them, they could be full of unpaid accounts. Nip this in the bud by requesting a security freeze for your child at each of the national credit bureaus. This prevents any loans or credit cards from being issued in the child’s name.
In addition to taking steps to safeguard your child’s personal information, keep an eye out for warning signs that someone has stolen your child’s identity. They include getting calls about overdue bills in your child’s name or being denied a student loan because your child has bad credit.

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