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Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead
Barence writes "Social-networking site Facebook is planning to preserve the accounts of dead members. The new 'memorialized' accounts will continue to display photos and wall posts, but remove 'sensitive information' such as status updates and contact information. Friends or family who want to report the death of a Facebook member are encouraged to fill out the site's Deceased form. The form asks for proof of death, such as an obituary or news article, although it's not clear how Facebook can validate the death of a member if neither of those pieces of information is published on the internet. How long before someone snuffs it on Facebook before their time?"
They're making a wise decision: status updates and contact information for dead people pretty much define "sensitive information."
DEADGUY: "Status: Bones yellowed, but still have some structure. Rat finally got away with St. Anthony medallion. Anyone gonna to go the open bar at Styx tonight?!"
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jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
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I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Removing that isn't so much privacy as logic. What would it say?
"Status: Dead"
"Status: Still Dead"
"Status: REAL Dead"
"Status: Excitedly Dead"
"Status: Dead Dead"
The Reaper likes this.
I am the lawn!
They should do that and also stamp DECEASED in red block letters diagonally across the picture, like you see on someone's file in the movies.
Sick of people knocking on Gentoo's greatness in completely unrelated
People won't bother to claim they died if it means it locks them out of their account as well.
After all, a real dead person can't update his/her status.
Removing that isn't so much privacy as logic. What would it say?
"Status: Dead"
"Status: Still Dead"
"Status: REAL Dead"
"Status: Excitedly Dead"
"Status: Dead Dead"
Status: Zombie. Want BRAAAAAINS
Myspace, in their desperate bid to stay relevant against Facebook, will introduce the "pour a 40" option, which is exactly the same; but much tackier.
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Facebook account says he's still alive.
Nullius in verba
Frank Deceased is now friends with: Wormy Maggot.
Frank Deceased Is it dark in here, or is it just me?
Frank Deceased has shared a link: http://www.city-data.com/forum/religion-philosophy/139511-purgatory-fact-fiction.html
Frank Deceased /face melt
Frank Deceased sure is quiet down here
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Heck, maybe the deceased person themselves wanted his or her account removed in case of death.
Guess they should have thought of that before they created their Facebook account. :-/
Dead for tax purposes.
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Status: Very serious, but stable, condition
It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.
ob: Monty Python
I'm not dead yet!
Yes he is.
No I'm not.
Is there something you can do?
[thwack]
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
You're forgetting all the other important demographics.
Vampire. Werewolf. Ghost.
And don't forget the reanimation technologies. If you're broght back like Frankensteins monster, do you get a percentage alive (5% live, 80% dead, 15% lunch), or will it go into detail (Left foot and right arm alive, rest still dead)?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
That thing jumping over you is a web2 remnant....
I'm certain twitter will have an auto twat service for the dead. "This twit is no more" "He has ceased to be". .....
I hate to nitpick[1], but a werewolf is not a member of the undead: "they're big and scary, they come from Überwald, and if you stab them with a sword they don't die. What more do you want?" you might ask (and someone from Discworld did ask). But this is slashdot, and pedantry runs rampant.
[1] Who am I kidding? I love to nitpick. It justifies my obsession with reading discussions on slashdot.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Werewolves aren't undead. I'd replace them in your list with "middle management".
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
"It just so happens that your status here is only mostly dead. There's a difference between mostly dead, and all dead."
"So... it's complicated?"
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What if they were Buddhist and believed in reincarnation?
"Status: Possibly a cat"
Status: Mostly Dead. Call Miracle Max.
...and add dust and scratches and ragtime piano to the videos.
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
I have a friend who died this spring and got a suggestion that I "reconnect" with her. Um, no. Thanks.
Actually I am a lab rat in an elaborate plot to take over the world.
Yes, but it will be changed to indicate that you are poking them with a stick.
If fate makes you a motorcycle, you become a motorcycle.
What if they were Buddhist and believed in reincarnation?
"Status: Possibly a cat"
Well, in that case, you most certainly cannot has cheeseburger.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose