Back in 2015, parent company Facebook rolled out an account memorialization feature that made it possible for user’s family and close friends to memorialize account if they die.
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The feature was excessively abused in the name of prank and many of the Facebook users memorialized their friend’s accounts just for fun.
Facebook soon paid attention to this and made it a compulsion for users to submit a death-proof for an account to be memorialized.
The same feature is now all set to roll out on Instagram too in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak that took away thousands of lives.
Post this feature rolls out, YOU will notice a ‘Remembering’ banner under the username of the person who lost their lives during this phase and is no longer in this world.
Liza Crenshaw, a spokesperson for Instagram told BuzzFeed News– “We’ve been working on these updates for some time, though this is one — among others — that we’ve accelerated in light of COVID-19 to help support our community during a difficult time,”
The feature was first spotted by Jane Manchung Wong, a reverse engineer from Hong Kong, who finds unreleased features and security vulnerabilities inside popular web applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
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