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Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-get-my-cart dept.

Barence writes "One and a half million Facebook users die each year. Twitter faces a similar mortality rate. Yet the social networks have been relatively slow to deal with the uncomfortable business of death. Only this week has Twitter finally unveiled a policy for handling the accounts of dead members. Yet the process for closing the accounts of deceased relatives is complicated, while reminders to follow the accounts of people who have long since passed away continue to arrive, adding to the pain of grieving friends and relatives."

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  1. Gayest Working Man's Hero Ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I ever spawn as son who talks like Steven Slater I hope somebody either kills me or him.

    "I'm such a fucking faggot, that even when I quit my job in the best way possible I still look and talk like a fag."

      I mean, if I ever get to see a flight attendent curse out one of these entitled, misbahaved, American spawns of Satan, I hope he at least doesn't sound like he will be probably be in the middle of buttsecks when the police come to arrest him for deployed the emergency slide and taking a couple beers with him.

  2. Sh17 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to 6e7 some eye

  3. Obligatory Xkcd by ryzvonusef · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://xkcd.com/686/

    I wonder if Facebook/Twitter admins get the urge to follow the Alt-text...

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    I am an ACCA student. Got a query on Accountancy/Finance? Maybe I can help!
  4. Re:I don't know about Twitter, but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My question is - Was she smoking outside due to the ludicrous Ontario anti-smoking laws? If so, then dough-head Dalton should share in some of the blame.

    I'm very anti-smoking, but I think it's gone too far.