Facebook tells me this is a memory of something I posted 3 years ago today. No recollection of it. Maybe it was something I got from the Outpost.
i wish there was a way to remove people from facebook after death
I think I saw that when I was cleaning up my parents’ digital presences after they passed.
My parents were both active on Facebook, but I avoid the thing like the plague. To wrap up their accounts on Facebook, I
- created an account (or resurrected the account, for my second parent’s passing);
- logged in as the parent in question (my mom’s logins and passwords were more-or-less unsecured on her iPad; my father had developed dementia, so I had taken over the duty of remembering logins/passwords before he stopped being able to do stuff online on his own);
- had the parent posthumously friend me and designate me to assume control after their passing;
- I forget whether I had to pass along a copy of the death certificate to Facebook
…and then I could resolve the account. In both my parents’ cases, I set them to memorial status, but I’m pretty sure I could have caused their accounts to be purged if I wished. I forget whether that was set within the late parent’s preferences, or if that was in my power as digital executor.
And then they’ll pull it back up, turn it back the other way, and then lower it . . . jiggling it on the way down.
For the Denver, CO peeps:
Now that’s an inconvinent truth.