Have you decided what will happen to your Facebook account when you die? – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

The question may be morbid, but the question is relevant. The Legacy Contact tool will allow you to timely decide what should happen to your digital legacy on Facebook. Launched in February this year, the option is now available in Europe.

The Legacy Contact reached Europe. It is a tool that lets you decide whether your Facebook account should be deleted or assigned to someone you trust to manage in the case of not being able to do, the company said in a statement sent to newsrooms. Contact The Legacy was first launched in the US, and later in Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

If you do not want your account to be simply erased after his death, you can assign management a person you trust.

Once Facebook is informed of the death of the account holder, the respective page is transformed into a kind of memorial account and the person named as responsible for the “digital legacy” may write a publication (tribute or practical information on funeral) on your page, responding to friend requests and update the profile picture and cover. You can not, however, enter the credentials of the deceased, or read private messages.

The Legacy Contact option still allows the account owner to decide whether to give permission to the person in charge of your digital legacy for download a file of photographs, publications and shared profile information on Facebook.

So far, Facebook offered a basic memorial kind of mind that could not be managed by third parties. Now, the company chose to expand the possibilities of this type of accounts and redesigning the pages, so that they begin to have the “Remembering” expression (“In memory of” or “Remembering”, in free translation) over name deceased person.

To define what should happen to your Facebook account simply open the “Settings” option, enter “Security” and then choose “Contact Legacy”, the equivalent of “Legacy Contact” in Portuguese.

When you enter, you can choose to eliminate permanently account or set a contact who will be responsible for managing the same in the case of an unfortunate event. After choosing the contact, you can send a message to that person for the report.