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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I accidentally poked a dead friend once.
It was as creepy as it sounds.
Gee,that’s too bad./s
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That probably holds a lot of interest for a certain segment of the population.
I’ve already planned ahead and designated a “legacy contact” for my dog’s facebook account.
I sometimes like revisiting old pages of dead friends. I have one friend, to whom I had sent a private message that she never received because she was in the hospital and I didn’t know it.
So is internal bowel syndrome.
No he’s talking about Facebook users who die.
Ah...I was going on title alone and knowing what I know. FB does have policy about inactive accounts (at least they used to) but if people are posting to it I think it keeps it alive.
You do realize this site is also social media right?
Interesting.
And not a bad idea actually.
I wish my Dad had had a Facebook account that I could follow.
And while we cloak ourselves under screen names, any determined person can probably figure out our real identities without too much difficulty.
I'm sure my grandkids will have a lot of fun pulling up my posts here years from now.
LOL... Man I just spewed some bier.
That’s very sad.
Facebook is actually much more private than this place. The profile pages here function pretty much the same way as a Facebook page.
Are they talking dead dead or democrat voter dead?
I would hope we all have internal bowels. But really FB is really just an open space. Depending on who you’re friends with and what you and they do on it it can be a festival of narcissistic stupid, or a fun place to have interesting discussions. If FB is dumb you need better friends.
That is an interesting question that goes beyond social media accounts like Facebook or even FR.
I went 100% digital some years ago as in I do all my banking and bill paying on-line and even file my taxes electronically. I don’t get any bills, nor any bank statements in the mail and prefer it that way. I keep my bank balance and reconciliation in a password protected Excel spreadsheet. I don’t even print much of anything out but instead save email notifications of bill payments for a few months, and even copies of my tax returns and other financial docs are saved digitally or scanned into a PDF and the paper docs shredded, all password protected in a hidden folder.
So if I were die tomorrow (and I’m not getting any younger) unless my executor (who is my nephew) had the password and PIN to even get into my laptop in the first place and then the user names and passwords for all my various accounts, he would have a hard time even knowing what bills I had (other than the two CC's I have in my wallet), the account numbers, who needed to be contacted or paid from my estate, etc. I am guessing he could contact my bank and provide them with a DC and a doc showing he was executor and go from there but it wouldn’t necessarily be easy.
If he could get into my laptop, and I’m sure he or some talented IT person could break in, he’d have access to my FB and FR accounts because I’m never logged out.
It would have to be keyed to activity *by* the account holder. Otherwise, the annual "Rest In Peace, Missing You Today", etc. response messages that the automatic user birthday reminders trigger will keep it active for a long time.
Those dead folks won’t be clicking on the ads.
This is a problem?
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