While lots of people have web pages on places like Facebook what happens to those pages if somebody passes away?
Countless americans have gotten invitations to become a facebook friend of someone – "after" that person has died.
To keep this from happening, facebook has an online form that you can fill out to make it obvious that your loved one is no longer with us.
Dan Daggett web developer for CSI says And what they do is make a lighter version of your page so it doesn't send out notices. It doesn't look the same as normal pages, so you keep your existing friends. But when you go to it, you can see that the person's dead and it's just a memorial to their life, and that's just some of the highlights.
Daggett says more people are putting instructions into their wills that tell their family members what to do with their intellectual property like facebook pages and other things posted on the internt..