Facebook presented "Tribute", a tool to remember a loved one after his death – 04/11/2019

Sheryl Sandberg, director of Facebook operations, announced that the social network will now be allowed to create a tributes section in the profiles of deceased users and called "Tribute".

In 2015, the platform introduced a feature that allows you to choose a legacy contact, a friend or family member who takes care of your Facebook account in the event of death. But, from that moment, they sent requests saying that they wanted more options to manage the memorial accounts.

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"More than 30 million people consult commemorative profiles each month to publish stories, remember events and remember those who are no longer there," the statement released on the official Facebook account said. Now the contacts of the inheritance they can moderate the publicationsThey will have the ability to delete labels, change the permissions of the profiles they can create, and view publications.

It should be noted that Facebook will use artificial intelligence to prevent the profile from appearing in situations where this could cause more pain, for example to recommend the person to be invited to an event or to send birthday reminders to his friends. "We are working to be better and faster in this type of situation," they said.

And they continued, "In addition to creating support tools for the community, we want to minimize the experiences that could be painful, and people have told us that converting a profile into a commemorative account is a step very important for which not everyone is ready. "

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