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 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!
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 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.
Continuing Education (CE) Programs
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  Celebrations of life in both the physical and digital world can create a more unified and meaningful remembrance experience that extends to loved ones that are close by and long distance friends, colleagues, and communities. To provide purposeful profile memorialization, we help make digital legacies everlasting.
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. Some key features include: 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. We invite you to join our invite list to try our pre-planning service. Simply enter your information and submit the form below to be notified when our pre-planning service launches. We will send an email invite when our service goes live, and you will be the first to know! Click here to learn more >  Facebook is the world’s largest social network with more than 2.5 billion monthly active users. As it relates to Facebook profiles, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, famously said in a 2009 interview with Wired magazine: “Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand.”
At the highest level, a brand can be defined as a particular identity or image regarded as an asset. These social media identities or brands are increasingly valuable and personal assets that may not be addressed in funeral planning. After a loved one passes away, a modern and frequently asked question is what happens to social media profiles after death? There are 2 ways social media profiles can be handled.
This blog post will address the first approach, which is a best practice, of properly reporting a decedent’s social media profiles to the social networks results in closing a profile and definitively restricts any further use, or memorializing a profile which is an option only for Facebook or Instagram profiles. Closing a profile deletes the account and personal information from the social network, which is a secure and straight forward solution. Memorializing a profile prevents anyone from logging into the account to protect against unauthorized use, and the profile stays online as a place for family, friends and others to gather. Again, this memorialization option is only available on Facebook and Instagram, which are owned by the same company. At this time, all other social networks simply offer one option to close and delete the profile. Memorializing a Facebook profile is an increasingly popular solution after a user passes away. Similar to learning about a death directly from a person, the indirect communication through a memorialized Facebook profile can prompt family, friends, colleagues and others to reach out and offer support and help with the funeral and bereavement process. After a funeral occurs, a memorialized profile can offer a place to find ongoing solace and emotional support. A memorialized Facebook profile shows the word “Remembering” next to the decedent’s name. In turn, when family, friends, colleagues and others visit the profile of the decedent, it clearly communicates they have passed away. Additionally, a limited option prior to a user passing away, is the ability to appoint what is known as a Legacy contact, which is someone the decedent chose prior to death to look after their memorialized account. Legacy contacts have the option to write a post for the profile such as a final message or provide information about a memorial service, update profile pictures, and request the removal of a decedent’s account. However, a Legacy contact cannot log into the account, read messages, remove friends, or make new friend requests. Essentially, a Legacy contact has very limited access to the decedent’s profile as an extension of their own Facebook profile and account capabilities or functionality. We will address the pros and cons of appointing a Legacy contact when we discuss pre-need planning approaches next. It is important to know that memorialization is an option on Facebook since it can be a helpful aspect of social media in the context of funeral service. To summarize the first approach of closing or memorializing a social media profile at the time of death, this is the preferred, prudent and most practical method to mitigate the emotional impact social media can have on family, friends, colleagues and others in the community. To learn more, we invite you to attend our Continuing Education (CE) webinar titled titled “Social Media & Funeral Planning”, which provides information on social media in the context of social science and funeral planning. During this 1 hour informational session, we offer practical guidance licensees can share with families to address concerns about a decedent’s social media profiles. Upon completion of this program, the licensee will gain a clear understanding of the concerns family members have about a decedent’s social media profiles, and become familiar with the solutions and services available to address those concerns as part of modern-day funeral planning. Click here to register > |
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