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Facebook Will Become The World’s Biggest Virtual Graveyard

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09-03-2016 | 01:37

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More people will be dead on Facebook network than alive before the end of the century, a statistician has claimed.

The social network, which currently has 1.5billion users across the world, will turn into the world’s biggest virtual graveyard by 2098.

Facebook’s refusal to automatically delete dead users automatically and the plateauing membership of the site mean that the living will be outnumbered sooner than you might think.

Facebook’s policy on dead users had stirred criticism as some families want more control over how their loved ones are remembered online.

Some dead people still appear as having birthdays in users’ news feeds and alerts despite having passed away.

Facebook has tried to get around the problem by asking users to appoint a ‘Legacy Contact’, a sort of online executor of their will, before they die.

The Legacy Contact can administer the page after you pass away by writing one last post and even approving new friend requests.

The contact can also update your cover and profile photo to something more proper after you have died.

Facebook declined to comment when asked about its own projection for when dead users will outnumber the living ones.

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