Even in death, there’s no break from social media. Almost a third of British people plan to name a “social media manager” in their will. This manager will be responsible for updating their Facebook accounts in accordance with their instructions. More than 10% of people would want a custodian to post items at least once a week. There’s little appetite for vanishing from social media: only a third of people want their accounts to be deleted when they die.
This is nonsense. What you ought to do is to leave the project to a relative or trusted friend to make of it what they will, if appropriate. Sell it, if it is commercially orientated, or have it quietly laid to rest (can you actually terminate these Facebook pages, and what is the procedure?). But have someone operating it in your memory is simply egotistical, if not spooky. There is too much preening and none-too- subtle boasting, not to mention the misinformation out there. What we want are more thoughtful offerings on social media, not voices from the grave!
This is the silliest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Of course there’s a procedure for deleting Facebook and all other social media accounts. I probably will do so well before death, or whenever such platforms become useless to me or technologically obsolete. I wouldn’t leave social media accounts to friends, because they may misrepresent your views. Just delete it if you no longer have a need for it. With Facebook specifically, you can deactivate your account if you want to take a long break from it. When you want to return to it, you can reactivate it and your account will be the same as it ever was.
I do agree that there is too much preening and boasting on social media. People often post the most heavily edited photos of themselves to make them look as good as possible. There’s also far too much attention seeking- trying to get as many followers or ‘likes’ as you can. The last thing we need is people continuing their fakes selves when their true selves have long ceased to exist.