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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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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If someone dies you can have them memoralized on Facebook and still connect.

On Monday Facebook gave some perspective on  profile memoralization procedures.  We have addressed this before. This appeared on the Official Facebook Blog:

“We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it’s important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized. For instance, just last week, we introduced new types of Suggestions that appear on the right-hand side of the home page and remind people to take actions with friends who need help on Facebook. By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions.

When an account is memorialized, we also set privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. We try to protect the deceased’s privacy by removing sensitive information such as contact information and status updates. Memorializing an account also prevents anyone from logging into it in the future, while still enabling friends and family to leave posts on the profile Wall in remembrance.

If you have a friend or a family member whose profile should be memorialized, please contact us, so their memory can properly live on among their friends on Facebook.”-Max Kelley-via blog.facebook.com

The Facebook Contact form is below.

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For a step by step approach go here.

You can fill out the Form Here

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WITH FACE BOOK, When a loved one dies ONE will Need to make a decision about their account. Facebook does provide  service where a limited Facebook Memorial stays in place for about a month. In order to do anything with Facebook in the event of someones death you must begin with the deceased’s Login Information.

After Obtaining the login information  there is  a decision  that must be made.  Do You Want to do a Facebook Memorial. OR Do you just want to close Your Loved Ones account?(Simply delete the account to close the loved ones account.) Proceed this way if you want a Facebook memorial.

This is what you get with the Memorial:

“When Facebook  learns of a death, it immediately removes the deceased’s:

1.contact information,

2.membership in online groups,

3. “personal information ” {favorites-  books, movies, quotations, etc). and that is only bringing your loved one to the Facebook funeral home.) It is a no cost removal- a hearse or a van is not used!}

4. What happens next for about  a month, the user’s Wall, photographs, and basic info( the hometown, the  birthdate, the religion)  stay.( a funeral that lasts a month, i have never seen that!). MEMORIALS ARE THEM POSTED ON THE USERS WALL

Once You have decided You want a Memorial:

Click on the  link

Facebook

This Comes up.

I’d like to report a deceased user or an account that needs to be memorialized.
Please report this information here that we can memorialize this person’s account. Memorializing the account removes certain more sensitive information like status updates and restricts profile access to confirmed friends only. Please note that in order to protect the privacy of the deceased user, we cannot provide login information for the account to anyone. We do honor requests from close family members to close the account completely.

CLICK report this information here, put in the personal information, submit and YOUR FACEBOOK MEMORIAL SHOULD BE READY SHORTLY!

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