According to a recent poll monitored from both USA and UK, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones in a very short while. It is discovered that the numbers of the dead on Facebook are rising fast hitting an all time 30 million mark high and growing.
While it’s obvious that people don’t outlive their bodies on digital technology, they do endure in one sense. People’s experience of you as a seemingly living person can and does continue online. Some questions here are: How is our continuing presence in digital space changing the way we die? And what does it mean for those who would mourn us after we are gone?
The truth of the matter is that as the numbers of the dead on Facebook are growing fast, the few living keep "liking" and "friending" the dead ones as they open their facebook pages on daily bases.
By 2012, just eight years after the facebook platform was launched, 30 million users with Facebook accounts had died. That number has only gone up since. Some estimates claim more than 8,000 users die each day.
At some point in time, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones. Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard.
Friend, do you know how many dead friends you have on your facebook account? Though many Facebook profiles which announce that their owners have passed are “memorialised”. The profile is emblazoned with the word “remembering”, and they stop appearing in public spaces, like People You May Know or birthday reminders.
But not all Facebook users who have passed away are memorialised. There those who died some few years ago, but their family members and friends regularly post updates on their pages, and when they do, the dead people’s profiles populate in their friends' Facebook feed. As a result, their digital identities continue to exist.
Apart from facebook, there are tons of social media platforms that will as well become graveyards very soon. In one social media chat room which I subscribe to, I had a wonderful experience. The moderators like taking sides. If you make a mistake of posting something they do not like, you just see one of them looking from one angle of the divide trying to develop an idea. The next thing you will see is that you are either blocked/banned from using the platform or that the thread is closed. They will manufacture excuses to justify this. Sometimes they direct or link you to certain non-existent pages just to remain in charge.
Anyway, these things happen everyday. You too may have had an experience. Truth of the matter is that when active people are blocked and taken out of the way, deadness takes over.
Share your own experience, if you have any.

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