When a person dies the facebook account

[Beachnutt]

lives on and scammers are hacking them.
Facebook should remove an account if it is inactive for a period of time I think but they don't.
Seems really creepy to me.

[snowybirdie]

1. You can

designate a person to go on your account and notify people of your passing. Then they can shut it down for you. I found this out when a long time friend was killed in an accident.

[Beachnutt]

3. I stopped doing facebook about 8 years ago

and I never got on there to delete the account and have since changed e mail accounts and forgotten all the password crap to all of it.
I told a friend that I don't use facebook and haven't in years and she said my facebook is still there, I tried everything to find out how to get it removed and there really is no way to do it if you don't know passwords and e mail accounts.
Facebook has no phone # to call and talk to a person either so I guess my old fakebook account will stay active eternally.
Maybe facebook is the antichrist.

[Straw Man]

2. I saw multiple posts advertising sunglasses ...

... on the website of a deceased friend. I replied to the posts, cordially inviting them to rot in Hell.

[multigraincracker]

4. Have not been on in over a year.

Gained more than I lost.

[multigraincracker]

5. Have not been on in over a year.

Gained more than I lost.

[obamanut2012]

6. You can set it as an In Memorium page

My cousin's husband did it for her, and my partner and best friend are designated to be allowed to do that for me.

[JT45242]

7. Should be part of will and estate document

When we recently did our will, one of the auto documents that it suggests you do is grant control over your accounts as well. So, locked in our firebox is a document with all that information so that our heirs can shut that kind of stuff down (emails, social media, app accounts) so that hackers cannot do damage to the estate.

Most people don't think about and if the will software hadn't shown us the form, I probably would not have thought about it.