How to Choose a Facebook Legacy Contact | Choose Your Facebook Legacy Contact : Choosing a Legacy Contact can be the best decision you make concerning your Facebook account because it simply tells Facebook to either delete your account or memorize it when you are gone. Death is inevitable - true but hard to believe! You need to make a smart move to choose who you want to manage your Facebook account when you pass away. See: How to Hide Your Facebook Friend List from Friends and Others . In this article, we'll see how to choose a legacy contact, how to memorize a Facebook account. What happen to your Facebook account if you pass away? You can tell Facebook in advance whether you’d like to have your account memorialized or permanently deleted from Facebook when you are gone. Memorialized Accounts Memorialized accounts are a place for friends and family to gather and share memories after a person has passed away. Memorialized accounts have t...