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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If you are a Facebook user it is indeed.
When the Bots rule...
In my MBA program one of the students looked at starting a company to help purge social media accounts of dead people.
maybe laz can start a count down for that
Laz would get tired after about two hundred years.
The death rate has hovered around 100% for millennia without any signs of abating.
Hmm...
The Facebook of the Dead
Om Mani Padme Hum
But the dead no longer take up corporeal space. Digital profiles of the dead continue to take up the same space as the living.
Well, two deceased friends.
But yes, it's sad to see the "birthday" notifications.
My best friend died in a motorcycle accident—his facebook is still alive though. It’s odd on how to deal with it.>>>> had a friend pass away and his page pops up every time i open the site.
It’s definitely something that needs examination.
Fake accounts to begin with to commit stock fraud.
Now a democrat graveyard of registered voters.
But it has such a great UI and you can have all those cute cat videos and funny memem </sarcasm>
By a thief.
Wow 342! That would make me over 400 years old.
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Or you could be one of the first ones to go.
That’s a canard. FB was nothing like Harvard centered dating site the others wanted to build.
I'm not sure. I hate LinkedIn now - nothing but a professional Democrat opinion echo chamber. Twitter is not useful to me. Instagram is even more of a "Look at meeeee!" site than Facdbook.
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
IOW, don't let greed color your investing judgement.
“Some people want the accounts of loved ones to remain as a memorial. “
My younger sister passed away in a motorcycle accident in 2011. I still visit her FB page and it brings me joy to see what she was doing on many a given day; and of course her pictures. I visit about 3 times per year.
I appreciate the legacy aspect of FB, but agree it has a creep factor to it...
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