Posted on 03/16/2016 1:24:17 PM PDT by Borges
The numbers of the dead on Facebook are growing fast. By 2012, just eight years after the platform was launched, 30 million users with Facebook accounts had died. That number has only gone up since. Some estimates claim more than 8,000 users die each day.
At some point in time, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones. Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard.
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True. I thought it just meant dead user accounts, not actual dead users.
I always thought that Facebook was bad juju—but perfect for the ‘Look at me!’ generation.
status update: single, bi-questioning and dead
"It's Complicated."
I am sure Facebook will get an app to purge their dead users from their users. Just a poke . . . poke . . . poke away.
OMG!
Facebook is killing 8,000 people a day!
Wow 342! That would make me over 400 years old.
I'm sorry; what was that in reference to again? :)
My aunt died in 2014, it’s nice that her kids and grandkids can visit her page anytime and remember the good times, see photos... It has turned into a lovely memorial. I regret that my dad didn’t have a FB page, I miss him very much.
A friend or relative can take custodial care of an account when someone dies. Kinda like the FR memorial wall.
And it was built on a website Connect-U stolen from three undergraduates at Harvard.
I heard a very interesting program yesterday on Spanish radio about “digital wills.” Think about it.
Obviously, there’s a lot of crabapple Luddites on FR who, despite the fact that their major contact with the world is through FR, an electronic means, hate things like FB.
I don’t use it much except to communicate with family, close friends and a couple of international organizations of which I am part. I never use Twitter, but I’m rethinking that because it’s a good news source. However, I also have a couple of blogs, one of which I maintain for an organization.
So if I drop dead tomorrow, who is going to deal with my digital remains? Apparently you can now appoint an executor in your will to deal with things like this, but the law on it is still pretty unclear.
This level of digital media is very recent, and relatively few of the young users have had to confront mortality at this point. But think about it, guys: think how many posts you’ve made since you joined FR, think of all the work JR has done in maintaining this site. So don’t scoff, this is an important and unprecedented question.
It’s how you use it. People who use it in a narcissistic manner quickly find that others block them from their scroll and they end up talking to themselves.
What Facebook became and what those guys planned was very different.
My best friend died of cancer 17 months ago and his page is still up. Sometimes it’s a comfort to look at old photographs and jokes that he shared, other times it’s really, really difficult. I am sorry about your friend and I hope that you’re okay. ((hugs)).
Is there an undead facebook? Status update: Still eating brains. Selfie to follow.
And reduce the size of the data mine they sell to advertisers? Perish the thought.
I am sorry for the loss of your friend, but I don’t think that is what the author is talking about.
He means digital dead like me. I signed up to monitor my niece and nephew. They are older now and don’t need supervision like that now. I haven’t logged into Facebook in over 2 years, yet the account still exists
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