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Facebook “for the dead” arrives in Portugal

or the dead” arrives in PortugalLegacy contact - the Facebook service that allows people to run accounts of the dead - has finally arrived in Portugal after being available elsewhere since February.

Briefly, it involves what Americans call “memorialization”.

Living Facebookers can appoint an “online executor” of their profile to decide what happens to it after they die.

The legacy contact will be able to write a memorial post, update photos and approve “friend requests”.

For anyone who wants to carry on making friends into the afterlife, this would seem to be the answer.

Facebook users can nominate a legacy contact by going into their settings, choosing 'security' and then 'legacy contact' at the bottom of the page.

Alternatively, people can instruct Facebook to permanently delete their account after their death.

Article courtesy of the Portugal Resident http://portugalresident.com/

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+2 #1 Daphne 2015-07-30 08:12
This should be something of interest to all those campaigning in Portugal for animal rights. In particular those helping out in rescue shelters and municipal kennels.

Getting photos and memories of rescued then euthanased animals onto this Facebook variation.

With 100,000 killed annually in Portuguese municipal kennels ... it is about time some more locals stopped to think about the stupidity of leaving the reproductive organs in or on an animal not intended for breeding.

But then it is probably not intended for a long, happy life either. That is yet another area where we differ !

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