Facebook updated account options on its platform this week to help users prepare for their own death and handle the death of loved ones.
"These changes are the result of feedback we heard from people of different religions and cultural backgrounds as well as experts and academics," Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote inSandberg herself lost her husband Dave Goldberg nearly four years ago and said that she relied on the company's platform to cope.
“When Dave died, I wanted to remember every detail, but in those early days, I could barely get through the day, let alone remember who told me what. Facebook was so important, not just to my grieving, but also to my remembering. It was there when I wanted to go and look.
"This helps them manage content that might be hard for friends and family to see if they’re not ready," Sandberg wrote.Facebook is working on its artificial intelligence so that it will flag that a user may be deceased without their profile having been memorialized.
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