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Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard.
BBC ^ | 3/14/2016 | Brandon Ambrosino

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: facebook
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To: jonrick46

I accidentally poked a dead friend once.

It was as creepy as it sounds.


41 posted on 03/16/2016 1:44:30 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Borges

Gee,that’s too bad./s

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42 posted on 03/16/2016 1:44:33 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That probably holds a lot of interest for a certain segment of the population.


43 posted on 03/16/2016 1:46:21 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Borges

I’ve already planned ahead and designated a “legacy contact” for my dog’s facebook account.


44 posted on 03/16/2016 1:46:57 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: PIF

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.


45 posted on 03/16/2016 1:47:22 PM PDT by Eva
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To: discostu

So is internal bowel syndrome.


46 posted on 03/16/2016 1:49:56 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Ouderkirk

No he’s talking about Facebook users who die.


47 posted on 03/16/2016 1:50:16 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Ouderkirk

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.


48 posted on 03/16/2016 1:50:51 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Resolute Conservative

You do realize this site is also social media right?


49 posted on 03/16/2016 1:50:55 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Interesting.
And not a bad idea actually.
I wish my Dad had had a Facebook account that I could follow.


50 posted on 03/16/2016 1:52:22 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Borges
I'm always amused at people here who denigrate social media - as if they don't realize that FR is also social media and wide open to the world!

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.

51 posted on 03/16/2016 1:53:58 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (646); Cruz (397); Kasich (142)
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To: JoeProBono

LOL... Man I just spewed some bier.


52 posted on 03/16/2016 1:54:14 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Eva

That’s very sad.


53 posted on 03/16/2016 1:54:22 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SamAdams76

Facebook is actually much more private than this place. The profile pages here function pretty much the same way as a Facebook page.


54 posted on 03/16/2016 2:02:06 PM PDT by Borges
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Are they talking dead dead or democrat voter dead?


55 posted on 03/16/2016 2:02:27 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

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.


56 posted on 03/16/2016 2:07:29 PM PDT by discostu (This unit not labeled for individual sale)
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To: Borges; livius
I heard a very interesting program yesterday on Spanish radio about “digital wills.” Think about it. 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.

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.

57 posted on 03/16/2016 2:08:30 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Larry Lucido
Not if they auto-delete inactive accounts after a warning. Inactive 5 years, warning, then delete six months later.

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.

58 posted on 03/16/2016 2:10:05 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Borges

Those dead folks won’t be clicking on the ads.


59 posted on 03/16/2016 2:11:51 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Borges

This is a problem?


60 posted on 03/16/2016 2:12:20 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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