After your death .. What happened to your Facebook account?

Many people are wondering what happens to accounts on social networking sites after the death of their users.

What will happen to your Facebook accounts?

Facebook, whose millions of users have died since its inception, offers the ability to transfer the account to a commemorative account or close it forever.

When Facebook, which witnessed the death of 8,000 users each day, introduced for the first time the idea of ​​an account in memory, any user could report the death of a user, which would block definitely access to the account. Post updates or appear in Christmas notifications to friends.

In 2015, Facebook announced a new policy to introduce "legacy contact", which, in the event of the death of a user, could access his account and suspend the publication of his publications at the top of his page.

Users can also choose to permanently delete their accounts after they die.

After the death of a person, a family member may request the deletion of his account by sending the death certificate.

What about Instagram?

According to the policy of INSTRAW, the deceased's account can be declared as a memorial account, or a close family member can file a request for deletion of the account.

And Twitter?

Twitter offers an option: disable the account.

To disable a deceased account on Twitter, the site asks an immediate family member to provide a copy of his or her personal identity and the death certificate of the deceased.