What happens to your social media accounts when you die depends on the platform’s policies, your own settings, and sometimes ...

When a loved one passes away, their Facebook account and all the accompanying memories, such as photos and other posts, may eventually be deleted due to inactivity. However, you can also memorialize ...

What happens to your Facebook account after you die? Well, that largely depends on who reports your death to Facebook first. In 2015, Facebook announced in a press release that users would be able to ...

When Jane Elmore McCardle, former managing editor of the Ashford Power, passed away in August 2015, her Facebook account lived on. Pam McCardle Lowe, one of Jane’s three adult children, said the ...

In this new world of social media, plenty of your accounts are going to soldier on after you die. Get ready. But in the meantime, it’s easy—too easy—to convince Facebook just about anyone is dead, at ...

Facebook has long had a complicated relationship with death. Absent giving someone the password to your account (a violation of its terms of service), it was ...

Update 2:30pm PST: A Facebook spokesperson has shared with us an updated statement: We have designed the memorialization process to be effective for grieving families and friends, while still ...

You might not actually be dead, but Facebook could think you are. The social network puts profiles into a “memorial state” when it believes that person has died, and it’s not very hard to trick ...

Maine's Rusty Foster, 36, found out the hard way that it's pretty easy to fake a person's death on Facebook. As a prank, Foster's friends falsely reported him dead last week via Facebook's ...

Jono Milner has created a new app called Sanctri that uses Facebook in a new light by allowing you to create memorial pages as a way to help people cope with the loss of loved ones through their ...