by kurt wagner
Facebook is changing its policies regarding profiles of users who have passed away.
Facebook on Friday altered its privacy settings on memorialized profiles so that all fuctions operate as they did when the user was active on the platform. For example, if a user kept his profile public to anyone on Facebook, that is the way his profile will be even after his passing.
Previously, when Facebook memorialized a profile, it was only visible to friends of the deceased.
"This will allow people to see memorialized profiles in a manner consistent with the deceased person's expectations of privacy," members of Facebook's community operations team wrote in a blog post. "We are respecting the choices a person made in life while giving their extended community of family and friends ongoing visibility to the same content they could always see."
A second part of the policy change involves "Look Back" videos, which were unveiled as part of Facebook's 10th anniversary in early February. Users will now be able to request a "Look Back" video of a loved one who has passed away.
Facebook automatically generated these videos of the top moments, posts and images from each person's Facebook history, and multiple users asked the company for "Look Back" videos of their deceased loved ones, according to the post.
The "Look Back" videos were particularly popular to users, and nearly 100 million people shared their video with friends in the first week Facebook unveiled them.
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