Below is a link to an article about how to request that a Facebook page be memorialized. Before you do this you need to be aware of a couple things that I didn't realize until AFTER the page was put in memorial status.
How to memorialize a Facebook page
- If you have your loved ones login information you may not need to memorialize the page. If you can login and make changes then you can change/privatize any information you need to.
- If you are not able to login to the page Facebook will not supply you with the login information even if you are immediate family. (I am actually okay with this right now. I might change my mind in the future.)
- The person will no longer show up in your "friends" list.
- You will not be able to "tag" photos. (This is good and bad as we still have friends who have photos they would like to share with us. I asked that they "tag" my mom and dad's pages.
- Only confirmed friends will be able to search for Keith and find his page.
- All his "information" and friends list has been deleted from his information page.
- I did post on his page that I was going to be doing this but I should have posted it in advance of doing it so everyone was prepared. It was a little fast.
- I sent a link to a newspaper article that confirmed his death. I am also certain that when they viewed his page and saw all the memorials they new he had passed away.
I recommended that you do this within a month or two of your loved ones death but not right away. You might contact me through this blog before doing this so I can share my experience with you.
2 comments:
Hi Melinda.
Thanks so much for sharing your story.
My dad passed away about the same time as your brother and my mom and I have been trying to decide whether to Memorialize my dad's Facebook page.
Would you still do it? Are there any features that you miss? Did Facebook remove your brother's comments and likes from your posts prior to his death?
(Funny aside... my mom keeps accidentally logging into Facebook as Dad, so I keep getting randome messages and likes from him... ) :)
Thanks!
David
David, So sorry I didn't see this comment until now. I am not sure that I would still memorialize his page. I was worried about identity theft originally. I was also worried about his picture/name popping up all the time and how that would affect my mother. If anything inappropriate happened or pictures posted we would never be able to do anything about it because no one new any of his passwords. Recently we have not been able to "tag" pictures of him. I need to contact support and ask why. We were never able to upload mobile pictures from our phones. We always had to upload from the web-based FB and not the mobile apps. That's too bad because a lot of people had some awesome pictures on their phones to upload.
If they weren't his "friend" before he passed away then too bad now that he is gone.:)
I don't think I would recommend memorializing until something happens. If it ever did you could always post a lot of things until the bad stuff was so far down the page you couldn't see it.
I hope that helps!
Melinda
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