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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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1 posted on 03/16/2016 1:24:17 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Good riddance.


2 posted on 03/16/2016 1:25:19 PM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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To: Borges

Funny - Facebook, Land of the Dead ...


3 posted on 03/16/2016 1:25:34 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Borges

My best friend died in a motorcycle accident—his facebook is still alive though. It’s odd on how to deal with it.


4 posted on 03/16/2016 1:25:42 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: Utmost Certainty

I don’t think you read the article.


5 posted on 03/16/2016 1:26:17 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

At one point there were 1 billion FB users.

at 8000 a day its gonna take a while.


6 posted on 03/16/2016 1:26:27 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Borges

Not if they auto-delete inactive accounts after a warning. Inactive 5 years, warning, then delete six months later.


7 posted on 03/16/2016 1:26:51 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Borges

Facebook is way over rated, it was built on hype.


8 posted on 03/16/2016 1:26:53 PM PDT by SIRTRIS
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To: Larry Lucido

Some people want the accounts of loved ones to remain as a memorial. A more likely scenario is adding filters to remove accounts of the departed from your searches.


9 posted on 03/16/2016 1:27:47 PM PDT by Borges
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To: SIRTRIS

What would be a good social media site then?


10 posted on 03/16/2016 1:28:01 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

But, most of them will show up and vote for Clinton.


11 posted on 03/16/2016 1:28:33 PM PDT by euram
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To: Borges

And yet people keep buying it’s stock!


12 posted on 03/16/2016 1:28:34 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Borges

I know of three dead facebook users who’s accounts are still live. I hate it when I get birthday reminders for them.


13 posted on 03/16/2016 1:28:42 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Borges

Both my mother and a very good friend both have “ghost” accounts.


14 posted on 03/16/2016 1:28:44 PM PDT by dware (Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
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To: SIRTRIS

What was that old stock quote adage... “pigs get fat - hogs get slaughtered”


15 posted on 03/16/2016 1:28:53 PM PDT by SIRTRIS
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To: Borges

By golly it’s true!

I don’t have a facebook account and I’m still living. PROOF!


16 posted on 03/16/2016 1:29:40 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: driftdiver

At 8,000 per day, it will take 342 years for all those folks to die!


17 posted on 03/16/2016 1:30:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Borges

Get a Facebook account and YOU COULD DIE!!!!!


18 posted on 03/16/2016 1:30:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Borges

I started on Facebook when you had to have an .edu account in order to join. It was pretty quiet.


19 posted on 03/16/2016 1:31:11 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: SIRTRIS

FB is what you make of it.


20 posted on 03/16/2016 1:31:24 PM PDT by discostu (This unit not labeled for individual sale)
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