Facebook will become the world’s largest cemetery – Diario Uno

The debate is transversal (and old) to the thrust of social networks. What about a profile of a user of one of these popular platforms when is deceased ? That cleaning profiles, which the companies themselves are reluctant to keep its share attests, once again, fringes to solve.

If Facebook aims to become a kind of code of global identification ( imagine that all citizens of the world have its own account ?) the introduction of a mechanism to remove inactive accounts following the death of its owner is a challenge to raise.

Given the way this has taken this social network with 1.590 million users, is time to look to the future . We live in the era of absolute digitization and amid virtual communications. Facebook continue to exist in a few years ? If he were still in operation by the year 2098 (some would like, but others?) Is estimated to be more dead than alive users. It will be a kind of zombie city, in which the dead will raise the flag of the majority. The planet’s largest cemetery.

They are data prepared by the researcher Hachem Sadikki , a doctoral candidate in statistics from the University of Massachusetts, who created a mathematical model capable of crossing high new users with low on the platform. One of the premises established for the preparation of the report of the inability to Facebook to remove or block the profiles of deceased users automatically, something certainly difficult to verify. For this year, researchers assume that almost one million users die, which represents a significant increase when compared to the 350,000 registered just six years, 580,000 made in 2012.

in a way, the technology giants have thought about it. Facebook, for example, created a place to remember and pay tribute to those who are no longer among the living. It is not the only one who launched. Many social networks have introduced a protocol in cases where a family wants to close the account of a person. In most cases, should it delivered via email legal documents that guarantee the affiliation between people.

E ste problem is greater considering that most Internet users often do not share their credentials and passwords, which is a paradox: contacts congratulate the birthday of a deceased person, many of them, even knowing the outcome. Yes, among our contacts, many of them are mere acquaintances for more that despite some, you do not have to know our real life . The result obvious. The profile will remain

The social network created by Mark Zuckerberg was more with the implementation of new options for managing the accounts of deceased . legacy Contact (Contact legacy) was conceived for the appointment of an executor who can manage some aspects of a profile, once the person dies. Google also activated also an option to delete the content of the accounts after some downtime.