What Happens To Your Facebook Account When You Die?

When someone dies, their Facebook account remains active indefinitely and it could be hacked and used to send spam or worse.

However, there are two options to avoid this, the late person’s account can either be deleted or memorialized.

If the account is deleted, then all photos, posts, comments etc. are also deleted unless legal steps are taken to retrieve them.

Also you can choose memorialization, Facebook changes a number of things on the account: No one is allowed to log in to the account. You can’t change, add to or delete existing content, which includes adding or removing friends. Automated activities, such as daily quotes or horoscopes, are stopped. Memorialized accounts don’t appear in “public spaces”
such as birthday reminders, People You May Know, or
searches.

Memorialized accounts can only be accessed by the user’s confirmed friends. However, the original contents stays in place. Also, Facebook adds, “depending on the privacy settings of the deceased person’s account, friends can share memories on the memorialized Timeline”.

So, if you’ve being wondering that is what could happen to your Facebook account after your death.
-The Guardian-