Facebook added a new feature and it’s called the “Legacy Contact” in the Security settings of your account where you could choose a specific Facebook friend to inherit your Facebook presence after you’ve passed on.

It works when someone lets Facebook know that you have kicked the bucket (with verification), they will then ‘memorialized’ the account. This is also when the legacy contact will be able to control certain aspects with your Facebook such as pinning post to the top of the page, respond to incoming friend request, control profile and header image of your account and download an archive of your photos and other posts (if given permission by you earlier). However, your ‘heir’ won’t be able to view messages or change other account settings.

Memorialized accounts won’t surface in friend suggestions, ads or other ‘public’ places on Facebook. A “remembering” label will be places before the name to let others know that it’s an account of someone who has since passes away.

Alternatively, you could also choose to get your account deleted after you’ve passed away.

For now, it’s only available to users in the United States for now but will be offered to other countries in the future.

So who will you choose to take over your FB account?

(Content & Images source: FB Newsroom)