​Facebook from the grave: Social network enables new postmortem management feature

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Social media fanatics will soon have one less thing to worry about when it comes to their web presence: Facebook is rolling out a new feature that lets users decide in advance what they want to happen to their profiles after they die.

Facebook announced in a blog post published Thursday that it’s begun introducing a new feature to account holders, “Legacy Contact,” that will eventually let the website’s 1.35 billion or so users have a say in what happens to their profiles once they pass on.

The feature is only just beginning to be rolled out now, but once it’s made available to a user that person may opt to tell the social networking site who, if anyone, they want to assume control of their account once they die.

Source: rt.com

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