In spite of all it’s internet users Facebook cannot tell if your face is dead or alive. They have mastered everything about social networking except  digital death and dying.  Have you seen a ghost on Facebook?

Everyone from the New York Times to CNET has covered this. Facebook is testing some software that supposedly can determine. whether the owner of a Facebook account is dead or alive!

Some one times someone needs to notify (set up) facebook and delete the account or setup a memorial page. Maybe soon you will be able to send a message from your iphone  to your facebook account from the grave. Many folks are being buried with their cell phones these days!

Maybe an iphone casket would work?

Snippet from CNET:

“I used to live in a haunted house. The lady who wandered around it in a white nightdress seemed benign enough. She never deliberately startled me or said “boo” and never made a mess. I think she was simply looking for something or someone she’d left behind. It wasn’t me, as she had died, I believe, somewhere around 1672.

Facebook now has a similar issue to deal with. Around its vastly populated house, there are people who waft away to the next firmament without leaving a note or even saying goodbye. But they’re still there. Out there. Somewhere.

Which is frightfully inconsiderate. It makes Facebook look frightfully inconsiderate too.”

via news.cnet.com

If you are dead do not be left digitally alive on facebook!

Don't be caught Dead on Facebook

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For some facebook is a continual Open Casket, a way to communicate with the dead long after they are gone. This has special appeal  for the generation that grew up on My Space  and continues their life on Facebook.

A Facebook Profile can be a perpetual memorial.

...a search ofFacebook groups titled In Memory of
turned up more than 55,000 results, and a search for
Rest in Peace turned up more than 14,000.

Facebook is a great place for online memorials

For the generation that spent high school on MySpace andcollege on Facebook, its only natural to seek out the Web in times of need.

When Northwestern freshman Trevor Boehm died in November 2008, friends and family members flocked to a common gathering spot to mourn together and share their disbelief: Facebook. It was all many of them could do, since his three older sisters were back home in Monument, Colo., and high school friends were away at colleges all over the United States.  Initially reported missing by his parents when they arrived for Parents’ Weekend and couldn’t locate him, 20-year-old Boehm’s body was found several days later in Lake Michigan near Chicago’s Montrose harbor. News of a candlelight vigil and two funerals, one at Northwestern and one at home, were spread through the “Rest in Peace Trevor Jon Boehm” memorial group on Facebook.

Many friends posted photos in the group or wrote messages on his personal page, expressing their grief and saying how much they would miss him. But more than a year after his death, Trevor Boehm’s Facebook friends are still writing to him, updating him on Nip/Tuck episodes he’s missed and Thai dinners he couldn’t attend. “Writing on his Facebook gives me a way to communicate with him because I feel like somehow he knows what’s being written,” says Ali Boehm, his older sister. “I go on there whenever I have a memory or thought of him. It’s a good outlet for just proactively communicating with him.”

A Facebook  Profile can be a perpetual “OPEN CASKET”
As Facebook and other social networking Web sites become more important to human interaction, these technologies are changing the way people cope with loss. In a world where our digital lives are as real those offline, a person’s Facebook profile postmortem is a virtual open casket. -via www.dailynorthwestern.com

For those who choose to ignore the Facebook Memoralization Option, and do not close the deceased’s account FACEBOOK BECOMES AN ALMOST PERPETUAL MEMORIAL.

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There is a new  type of facebook death-Facebook Suicide- death announcing your funeral by suicide note posting on facebook. Suicide is tragic no matter where and when it happens But posting a suicide note on Facebook  Profile-is a a strange way to announce your death and impending funeral. It shows that social media is an inadeaquate form and no substitute for human contact.

“I can’t go on anymore. I just hung myself.” An unnamed man in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island put this and other disturbing notes on his Facebook page this afternoon, the Staten Island Advance reports. Friends saw the notes and, unable to reach him by phone, contacted authorities, who sent EMT workers to his home. But it was too late — the man was found dead, apparently by his own hand.

His notes indicate he was worried that he was going to be fired, and had some difficulty managing his psych medications (“When I take my meds I’m manic when I don’t I’m severely depressed like I am now”).

Advance commenters are less playful than usual about this one. “If this guy had some human company, instead of his computer,” says one, “he may still be alive. via- Staten Island man threatens suicide on Facebook, goes through with it // Current

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A Facebook Memorial has run into some legal trouble in Canada. Apparently the popularity of the memorial on facebook for a two year old murdered boy may pollute a jury pool, violate a  court order and a publication ban.

FACEBOOK HAS RUN INTO SOME TROUBLE WITH A FUNERAL MEMORIAL.

As a grief-stricken family prepared the funeral for a two-year-old Oshawa boy slain in a basement apartment, thousands of people turned to Facebook to memorialize the child.

But as mourners — some family, some friends, even complete strangers — post condolences, photos and apparent theories of how the toddler was killed, they could be breaking a court-ordered publication ban.

Neither the victim nor the accused, the mother’s 26-year-old boyfriend, can be publicly identified.via www.metronews.ca

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Amit Gupta’s photostream

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