Your Facebook legacy

Yesterday I got to thinking. It was the news story about the British student who was murdered in Italy that started it all off.

If you were to die suddenly, your Facebook profile would live on after you. It would be the most concrete reminder of you that was left behind.

Not only that, but if you were to die in a news-worthy way, photos from your Facebook profile would end up in the papers. That's what happened to the girl who was murdered in Italy.

And you don't just have to be dead for your Facebook photos to make their way to the press. The flatmate of the murdered girl, who is apparently prime suspect, had some fairly embarrassing photos of herself splashed accross the Daily Mail yesterday under the headline 'Foxy Knoxy'.

So, just in case you happen to do something news-worthy like get murdered, kill someone, or anything else, think about the photos of you that may end up in print. Can you trust everyone on your friends list not to sell an incriminating photo to the Daily Mail?

And have a think about the Facebook legacy you're leaving behind, just in case your profile out-lives you.

Facebook. It's bigger than us all. We've lost control!