News Facebook to become world’s biggest virtual graveyard

[Technoglitch]

By 2098, Hachem Sadikki says, the social network will become the world’s biggest virtual graveyard.

The PhD candidate in statistics at the University of Massachusetts said that he worked on the basis that Facebook will continue to refuse to delete dead users automatically and that Facebook growth will soon begin to slow.

At present when a user dies on Facebook it transforms their page into a ‘memorialised’ version. The only way to delete the account of a dead person is for someone with the password to log in and close it down.

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[IndianMascot]

Now dead people will be in memory forever on Facebook.

 

[Technoglitch]

their account would not be closed even if requested

 

[IndianMascot]

Yeah unless someone has ID and password. But how they will came to know whether a person is dead or alive.

 

[Sanjeev]

Yeah unless someone has ID and password. But how they will came to know whether a person is dead or alive.

That's a million dollar question i think the family member might convey it to Facebook

 

[Technoglitch]

the friend or relative has to report that the person is deceased and hence close the account.

 

[Technoglitch]

That's a million dollar question i think the family member might convey it to Facebook

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[IndianMascot]

Just hoping someone doesn't report is falsely.