5 Simple Steps to Prepare Your Facebook Account for After Death

Facebook has added a new feature to allow a Legacy Contact to manage your account, in limited but important ways, after you die.

With so many people turning to Facebook to memorialize friends and family, it's critical that you take a couple of moments to add a spouse, relative, or trusted friend as your Legacy Contact.

5 Simple Steps to set up a Legacy Contact:

1. From the Newsfeed or any group page, select the arrow in the upper right hand corner.

2. Select "Settings."

3. In the left column, select "Security."

EDIT: This step is no longer required as of 2017.

4. To the lower right, select "Edit" in the "Legacy Contact" row.

5. Add the appropriate information and press "Done."

This is what it will look like when fully set up:

Don't forget to tell your Facebook friends about this by sharing this post.

Etcetera.

All images were created using a Surface Pro 3 and OneNote 2013.