Facebook: Representative of the late, will manage the dead profile
At last, the Facebook allows them users to decide for themselves what will happen to their profile after they die.
The ability to define a "digital heir," which manages the late-stage profile, is available from Thursday in the US, with the prospect of later expanding to other countries.
To this day, the Facebook just froze the profiles of dead users, often causing the anger of their relatives, who had no possibility of interference.
This is now changing. At settings security of Facebook, the user has the possibility to either designate a digital heir or to choose the total deletion of the profile after his death.
Digital life and digital death
As an inheritor, or "legacy contact" as Facebok calls it, only one other social network user can be defined.
However, if the user does not activate this feature but sets a digital heir with a regular, lawful will, Facebok will respect his or her desire.
However, there are limitations to the interventions that the digital heir can make to the profile. It has the ability to change them photos of the profile, to respond to new friend requests, but not to intervene in posts of the deceased, remove photos or delete the profile.
Google became in 2013 the first big one company του Διαδικτύου που επέτρεψε τον ορισμό ψηφιακών κληρονόμων για τους λογαριασμούς χρηστών στο Gmail, στο Google Drive and in other services.
According to Facebok, the new feature allows relatives of the deceased to convert their profile into virtual memory spaces.
Source: tovima.gr
