Can Twitter and Facebook deal with their dead?

[Simon]

One and a half million Facebook users die each year. Twitter faces a similar mortality rate. It's a growing problem for the social-networking sites - and often even more so for the relatives left behind.

Reminders to "reconnect" with deceased friends and relatives, or the automatic deletion of dead people's accounts are only two of the ways in which social-networking sites can add to the pain of grieving friends and relatives.  Which is why social-networking sites are being forced to deal with their dead...

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/analysis/360235/can-twitter-and-facebook-deal-with-their-dead

[Rik]

I suppose, to a lesser extent, it will hit forums too, but we will generally know and act without intervention.

[pctech]

I suspect they most of them die of boredom 

[Rik]

[pctech]

I mean FB and Twitter, forums are much better.

Joking aside, yes it must be painful for relatives and friends.

[Simon]

I guess it's much the same as receiving junk mail addressed to a deceased person.

[Rik]

It's bed enough receiving it when you're alive.

[Simon]

 

[Rik]

I note I've got your disease again.

[Glenn]

I thought you was getting sleepy.

[Rik]

I am. Damned medication.

[Niall]

I mean FB and Twitter, forums are much better.

Joking aside, yes it must be painful for relatives and friends.

It depends on what you want from something. It's hard to communicate with friends and relatives on a forum they're not a member of. Facebook has major flaws, with downtime, errors, rogue apps taking your info if you're stupid enough to allow them access, the security settings not being to hide things by default, but to show everything. Twitter is much cleaner for my money. You follow who you want and if you use add ons in Firefox like Echofon you get the updates popping up in the corner of your browser so you don't even need to visit the Twitter page itself. Also, if you follow specific things on Twitter, you get news before it's even on news stations like Sky or the BBC.

Forums are specific levels of information or topics. Often limited by the knowledge of the people signed up as members of them. The long and short of it is that there is a place for all of them.

Personally I couldn't care what my Facebook page or Twitter account does when I'm dead, as I'll be dead. As long as it's not being used to sell The Sun newspaper, I couldn't care. Literally.

[Rik]

News of the World OK, then, Niall?

[Niall]

God no

[Glenn]

Sunday Sport?

[Technical Ben]

Perhaps you need to put your twitter page on your tombstone these days? Could a solicitor/undertakers not do it for you?
"I want to be buried with my facebook picture wall!"

[Rik]

[pctech]

BT are planning to provide internet access to cemetries to permit communication from beyond the grave.

Apparently no wiring is required at all.


They are calling it BT DeadBand.

[Rik]

[Simon]