What happens to the pages in social networks after the death of the user

The world of modern technology allows the digital soul of users of social networks to live even after their death.

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Edition AdMe.ru found out what happens to personal pages in social networks after a person disappears and what unusual phenomenon this may lead to in the future.

Facebook: digital testament and memorable status

Facebook offers to their users to write a digital will in advance, simply indicating in the settings of your account a person who will manage the page (the "heir" will not see the personal messages of the page owner, will not be able to delete records, but will be able to post new ones).

If death became sudden, then there are two other options:

• the relative can remove the page (if the documents prove, firstly, the relationship, secondly, death);
• the same relative with evidence of what happened can establish a “memorable status” - then the page will continue to exist in the same form. Although the keeper of the page will be able to change profile photos, upload new publications, respond to new requests from friends, plus the deceased person will be able to mark in the memorable photos, which, accordingly, appear on his wall in Facebook. And in the profile opposite the name there will be a special mark Remembering (memorable status).

Instagram: Memorial Gallery

Deceased user page Instagram just turn into пdeath gallery. It sounds scary, but she will be able to tell a lot about a person and will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him better for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Also, the relatives of the deceased may request the deletion of the account (provided that they document the fact of the relationship with the owner of the page, the fact of his death and in general the fact of his birth).

Twitter: page can attract bots

In 2017 year Twitter happened scandal: The account of the deceased 2 a year ago, journalist David Carr hacked a spam bot and began writing nonsense on his behalf, bringing his subscribers to shock.

Despite such an incident, Twitter For now, you can only deactivate the account for your closest relatives or leave everything as it is - with the hope that the person’s past sins will not bring spam bots upon him.

Google: Last Will

"Life is full of surprises ..." - so begins the description of the service for accounts Google called "Just in case". In it, you can set up a “period of inactivity”, that is, if you abruptly stop using pages and go online for a long time (you set the term yourself), Google sends you a notice that your period of inactivity ends, and after a few days does your “last will”, which you can write in advance, deciding to whom you will transfer your accounts after you disappear (this can be as much as 10 people).

VKontakte will leave everything as is

In the social network "VKontakte" the sad news can be reported to tech support by attaching a clear photo of the death certificate to the message. To choose a page, you can either delete it or deactivate it; preserve it as it is (you can also tighten the privacy settings, leaving it open only for close ones). No family management is offered.

What all this may lead in the future

The number of dead users of the most popular social network Facebook already in 2012, it was about 30 million. From this we can conclude that the day is not far off when the deceased users of the social network will be more than living. Probably, on this very day, the whole “online necropolis” will arise and official codes of regulation of the virtual heritage will be published.

But what does it mean? This means that even if you die tomorrow, your digital soul will continue to exist.

Moreover, not just to exist in the form of an abandoned page, but to be a full-fledged reasoning consciousness, which is simply always only online. And this is quite a real technology. There is a site called Eterni.mewhich downloads all digital information from the deceased's social networks (every message, video message, every photo, comments, all documents) and creates a bot - a copy of a person who can “think” in an original way. That is, you can chat with him in real time, he will evaluate and respond to your messages and stories as a living person.

If such services develop, then in the future we will be able to communicate with our great-grandfathers as if they had not died. And famous people, for example politicians, will be able to ask for advice or opinion on world events.

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