What happens to my Facebook account when I die?

[Mimi]

Does it get closed out automatically after it's not used? Or does the family request that it be taken down? Or what? There is no place for date of death, only date of birth. The reason I ask is that two of my friends lost their teenage sons and the sons still have Facebook accounts, even though they have passed away.

[SnowBunnii <33]

They stay there forever or until a family member gets their password and deletes their account... Youu cant just expect facebook to know they died...

[ganglymoose54]

I'm friends with 2 people I went to high school with that passed away. One boy's account has been taken over and used regularly by his mother, and the other boy's account is used by his aunt and she plays Farmville because he loved to play it. Neither has been deleted.

[Spudnick]

it goes to heaven

[No One Knows]

Status: Dead

[Phantomzebra481]

That must be painful. The facebook pages stays there until they are removed. The family can request to have them taken down, but facebook don't even have any kind of support so they will just stay there unfortunately.

[Grace Fowler]

They can be reported and if reported alot they will go off

[girl101]

They'll stay on the site for good unless someone who knows there password gets into the accounts and manually deletes them. I know this because a man my boyfriend knew from work committed suicide and his facebook is still up. It's quite nice though, because all of his friends and family write on his wall all the time to tell him they're thinking of him etc.

[♥]

If the family has a problem with the persons facebook still up after their death then they can contact the facebook staff,stating the reason why they want it removed and the staff will be more then happy to remove the persons page.