Profile Peace is an online profile memorialization & closure service that helps social media users and family members lay digital identities to rest as part of modern day funeral planning. This blog post will address pre-planning or pre-need approaches for managing social media profiles posthumously.
As it relates to pre-need approaches, which in the context of funeral planning, means before a death has occurred, there are 4 main solutions to consider for closing or memorializing social media profiles.
First, and most formally, is to include social media profiles as part of a will. Traditionally, a will, sometimes called a “last will and testament,” is a document that states your final wishes and instructions about what should happen to property after death. A variation on a traditional will is what some call a digital will, which can be a more informal document that allows family members to close down your online accounts, including social media. This first approach can be done using a variety of estate planning services, whether online through a website like LegalZoom or more personally with an attorney in a face-to-face meeting. Either way, when family members know your account information and are granted permission to manage accounts through a formal will, they have the most control over social media profiles and can delete or memorialize profiles accordingly. While logging into the decedent’s account to delete their profile is against the Terms of Use for social networks, a will is an effective pre-need solution. A second pre-need option is using a third-party service such as Profile Peace where a social media user can list their accounts in a secure online database along with their closure and memorialization preferences, and then authorize the service provider to submit their requests upon their death. This option is a best practice in addition to a will, and is a new and modern alternative to formal estate planning. Since more than 60% of people do not have a will or estate plan according to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), pre-planning services like Profile Peace are a practical and cost effective social media solution. This is a new service being introduced by organizations such as Profile Peace in order to meet social media user’s directives for how to handle profiles after death. Click here to learn more about the process Profile Peace provides for listing profiles, selecting preferences, and granting legal authority to a social media service provider to act on your behalf at death. A third pre-need option is informally sharing a list of profiles and passwords with a trusted family member, friend or other person. To reiterate, this option directly violates a social networks Terms of Use. For example, Facebook clearly states to “Not share your password, give access to your Facebook account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission).” The idea behind this approach is that the person you trust to share the information with can log-in and delete your accounts directly. Keep in mind that sharing information with a trusted family member or friend also leaves that document open to theft or unauthorized use if left unsecured. So this pre-need solution is not a best practice, but can be a practical approach to consider in the absence of alternative solutions. Moving onto the fourth pre-need planning solution is appointing a legacy contact for Facebook. As discussed earlier when addressing properly closing a social media profile and memorializing accounts, this is an effective solution for Facebook, but does not help close other social media accounts. The result is that the legacy contact is then granted permission to formally request the deletion of a decedent’s Facebook profile at any time. As other social networks progress and evolve to meet the needs of their users, we hope to see similar legacy functionality in the future. Presently, the option of appointing a legacy contact does not address other social media profiles, and therefore is not considered a best practice since it is not a complete and comprehensive solution. To summarize these four pre-planning approaches, creating a will, appointing a pre-planning service like Profile Peace, trusting a friend or family member with your passwords, or a choosing a legacy contact are the main ways to pre-plan for a decedent’s social media accounts, and having a will in place or a pre-planning service like Profile Peace are best practice solutions. Click here to learn more about our Pre-Planning Social Media Service >
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Posting stories on your profile is a fun way to stay in touch. Preserving your legacy online is a prudent way to stay present in the lives of those you love. Profile Peace pre-planning social media service helps you design a lasting and memorable presence posthumously, including setting up profile preferences, tributes, fundraising, and celebrations.
Profile Management Our pre-planning service maintains a current list of your social media profiles along with your closure and memorialization preferences. Profile Peace will honor your requests as you wish, and secure your accounts with dignity and care. Tribute Videos Create your tribute video(s) with content from your social media profiles to celebrate your vibrant life! Easily add content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and more to capture and share highlights of your digital legacy. Fundraising Causes Raise funds to help cover funeral costs and invest in causes you care about to leave a lasting impact! From family funeral funds to charitable organizations, you can raise funds to support the people and purposes that are dear to your heart. Celebrations of Life Share your life story and let others know your special requests. What is your vision of how your family and friends can honor your life? Dedicate a memorable experience to pay respect to the people, places, and things you love. Our pre-planning service honors your digital legacy by closing and memorializing your social media profiles and celebrating your life posthumously. We help you secure your online accounts, create tribute videos, support the causes you care about, and celebrate your life the way you want. Click here to sign up for our beta launch > Happy Memorial Day! As we celebrate the start of summer with friends, food, and fun, Profile Peace gratefully honors the military personnel who have served and sacrificed so greatly.
Learn how we help online legacies live on with our pre-planning and in memoriam social media services. Profile Peace wishes you and your family a happy and healthy holiday! From the Profile Peace family to yours, we wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Easter full of sincere gratitude, remembrance, and appreciation.
As the holiday brings a renewed spirit of faith, healing, and love, may your Easter basket be filled with joy, happiness, and peace this season and always. We warmly welcome you to the Profile Peace community, and thank you for supporting our mission of providing purposeful profile memorialization and closure. Social media profile information can appear posthumously in advertisements, connections, and notifications to family, friends, and colleagues. To provide peace of mind and protect online legacies, Profile Peace created a continuing education webinar titled "Social Media & Funeral Planning" on caring for a decedent’s social media profiles. Webinar: Social Media & Funeral Planning https://www.profilepeace.com/store/p18/Social_Media_%26_Funeral_Planning_CE_Program.html This webinar identifies the 2 ways social media profiles can be handled after death of reporting or not reporting social media profiles to social networks, addresses the benefits of reporting profiles for closure or memorialization, and the security and emotional concerns of unreported profiles appearing in advertisements, connections and notifications. Our mission is to provide purposeful profile memorialization and closure. With this in mind, Profile Peace warmly invites you to learn social media and funeral planning best practices and earn CE credits. Simply click here to join our community of funeral directors and gain access to the Continuing Education (CE) programs provided by Profile Peace > When it comes to social network notifications from our late loved one's, less can be more. To help quiet social network notifications, Profile Peace recommends formally memorializing profiles using our pre-planning and in memoriam social media services.
Social media data includes personal information such as passions, photos, and places connected to our profiles. This data is distributed throughout networks in the form of friend suggestions, birthday reminders, work anniversaries, ads and more. To serve our audience of families and funeral directors, we created a continuing education webinar titled "Social Media & Funeral Planning" that addresses how a decedent’s social media profiles can impact family, friends, and others. Watch here. We encourage the Profile Peace community to protect and preserve social media data properly to prevent appearances posthumously. Our mission is to provide purposeful profile memorialization and closure. We welcome you to join our community> Celebrating Online Legacies in 2022: As we share our digital lives in the new year ahead, Profile Peace is helping social media users and family members celebrate online legacies. Our 2022 initiative is to deliver educational programs on best practices for memorializing social media profiles.
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Our learning objectives are designed to help social media users, family members, and funeral directors understand and implement social media pre-planning and in memoriam best practices. The Profile Peace mission is to honor online legacies by providing purposeful profile memorialization and closure. To start learning, visit our Continuing Education (CE) page here. To read more about our social media services, visit our Pre-Planning page here and In Memoriam page here. For additional information, email support@profilepeace.com. We warmly welcome you to join our growing community here. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from Profile Peace! From our family to yours, we hope you have a healthy and heartfelt holiday season. Please take time to connect with loved ones this time of year.
As a helpful resource, the Center for Loss & Life Transition shared this thoughtful guide for “Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season.” With sincere gratitude, we thank you for your support and send all of the very best to you and yours. Wishing you warm season’s greetings! From the Profile Peace family to yours, we wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Thanksgiving full of sincere gratitude, remembrance, and appreciation.
In the spirit of adding more community, love, and magic to your family’s Thanksgiving holiday, please enjoy the thoughtful Thanksgiving Reader by Seth Godin. We warmly welcome you to join the Profile Peace community, and thank you for supporting our mission of providing purposeful profile memorialization and closure. Program Overview
Join us for a continuing education program and learn best practices for controlling how a loved one’s social media profile information is shared. During this 1 hour informational session, we offer practical guidance families can use to help avoid seeing a loved one's personal information from appearing in advertisements, birthday reminders, work anniversary notifications, and friend suggestions on social media networks. Upon completion of this program, participants will learn how to secure social media accounts of a decedent and quiet notifications. Learning Objectives 1. Explore how social media networks use profile information to automatically notify users. 2. Identify the types of notifications that are sent to other users on different social networks. 3. Discover the settings that social media users can adjust to control notifications that are shared. 4. Recognize how closing or memorializing accounts of deceased users ceases notifications. 5. Explore best practices for securing a loved one’s personal information on social media networks. Registration & Access After pre-registering, we will notify you when this continuing education (CE) program is available. This 1 hour webinar teaches funeral directors best practices on quieting social media notifications. Please watch the video program and submit the exam & evaluation. After earning 70% or higher on the exam and submitting your score, we will email you a certificate of completion within 2 business days. Please register here > Support Inquiries For assistance, please call 312-279-8829 or email support@profilepeace.com |
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