Facebook after death: memorialising your profile – Chips with Everything tech podcast

Death, meet the 21st century. Here's an inside look at how you can have your social media profile managed after you die with Facebook's memorialisation service

We do everything on social media these days. We live tweet the Oscars, we Instagram our pets, we secretly block our friends for posting far too many baby photos. And now, with the help of Facebook, we can keep up our social media presence after we die.

In this episode, we take a look at Facebook's memorialisation platform, and ask the question, "What happens to our Facebook accounts when we die?" To explore, we speak to Jasmine Probst and Vanessa Callison-Burch from Facebook's memorialisation team, and Karen Marcus, a woman who used Facebook's service to memorialise her late husband's account.