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- Daolpu, on 10/27/2009, -3/+61A friend of mine died in a car accident just last night. I had known her since Kindergarten. She had just graduated high school and was starting college. Her Facebook wall is full of tearful goodbyes and prayers for her family. I don't think I could have learned of this feature at a more appropriate time.
- JediCorran, on 10/27/2009, -2/+41i should notify facebook about my pal geocities.
- ChromaVita, on 10/27/2009, -2/+31Does it allow someone to take down embarrassing the drunken pictures? I hope not. I want it to be known now that I don't want my drunken pictures taken down.
- laurenkim6, on 10/27/2009, -0/+28from the site
"us | October 26, 2009 11:12 AM | Reply Report
Just a warning for people about FB's policy. Once a profile has been memorialized, it becomes locked-out for anyone who tries to log-in.
Recently, an acquaintance passed away, and some well-meaning individual decided to memorialize the profile. Unfortunately, they did so without asking the family. As a result, some videos belonging to the deceased, which were tagged private, have been lost forever. The family went to great lengths to try to get the videos, which contained some original music, but were unable to do so."
i think it should only be done by families! at their discretion... - T8erT0T, on 10/27/2009, -0/+28i cannot foresee any incident that would lead to exploitation or misuse of this feature.
- juankovo, on 10/27/2009, -1/+26I'm going to have to amend my will now to indicate what is to happen with my Facebook profile, aren't I?
- Akairenn, on 10/27/2009, -0/+23Totally cold.
I mean, you should just totally be able to report anyone as dead, no questions asked. Like you can do with utility companies and banks.
:p - sgerwel1985, on 10/27/2009, -1/+21I know a kid i went to high school with passed away not too long ago. Friends of his made a group in remembrance of him, and nearly 1000 kids joined the group. It also had a massive turnout to the funeral, which raised money for the family who lost their father 4 months prior. While that sounds greedy, it has helped them greatly since now the mother has passed and now only have 2 children remaining.
Kudos to facebook for allowing such things, not only has it been a great way for loved ones and family to cope. But also brings a bunch of people close together again who otherwise wouldn't. - RobertWright, on 10/26/2009, -6/+25If the family don't have a problem with it,,,,,,,Cool!
- pardonmedoug, on 10/27/2009, -1/+13doesn't
- Jarrane, on 10/27/2009, -2/+14Sorry to hear that. You'll make it through this.
- grubeater, on 10/27/2009, -4/+15This reminds me of last Halloween when a deceased friend of ours was invited to this big Halloween Bash -- she never RSVP'd but we coulda sworn she was going to show up as a ghost.
This is going to get dugg down but at least a few of you will get a laugh out of it, lol... - rahga, on 10/27/2009, -1/+11I had a coworker pass away this morning.... His facebook page is pretty much the only thing on the internet that refers to him, and it looks like doing the facebook memorial will limit access to his page to people who are already his friends, and will exclude him from things like searches. In essence, this kills off the little bit of data about himself that he put out on the web.
- wheresjim, on 10/27/2009, -0/+10As long as it stops telling me to "reconnect" with my mom who passed a few months ago I'm all for it.
- juankovo, on 10/27/2009, -4/+11I plan on setting up a fake obituary site so I can submit my friends and then get their profiles frozen.
- ladyumbrella, on 10/27/2009, -2/+9Its a nice idea but also pretty grim...and wide open to abuse...
- nelsenbrazill, on 10/27/2009, -1/+7"We try to protect the deceased's privacy by removing sensitive information such as contact information and status updates"
I'm pretty sure that the deceased wouldn't be updating their status... - sloppychris, on 10/27/2009, -0/+6What were the "great lengths"? They couldn't just contact Facebook and explain the situation?
- inactive, on 10/27/2009, -0/+6A link to an obituary would do. Failing that, you could ring them I guess. They have to stop people abusing it somehow.
- guinpen, on 10/27/2009, -2/+6Upload drunken pic, caption "me right now! so wasted! brb driving home"
- goomba323, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4Even in death I hope my family can't access my facebook profile. They are forever blocked. FOREVER blocked.
- jokr004, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4wow, you're a terrible person
- linagee, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Does it allow you to post new pics after you're dead?
"This is me at the mortuary" - mizuhri, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Jesus Christ... I thought I had it bad.
- linagee, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3There's a death in the family discount??
- SplitRaindrop, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Why not allow people to designate people who can contact facebook to memoralize them? With various insurance companies/banks etc. you indicate who has power over an account when you die. Or have some sort of "code word" you could indicate in a will or store in a secure location. What about people with less than tech savy relatives?
Also is facebook going to somehow indicate on the page that it's a memorialized profile? I have facebook friends that have moved around the world and I can't say that i would always hear that someone had died. Is it going to show up in my "news feed" (live feed? whatever it's called these days? I'd rather not see "Joe Shmo Friend has passed away" on facebook. That's really not an appropriate way for people to find these things out. - laofmoonster, on 10/27/2009, -1/+4This isn't /b/, *****.
- ohhaiitsryan, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3i can only imagine the over the top high school drama that will ensue
- shagg187, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Obituary, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpDiZLrTHX4 - jaypooner, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2i smell mischief
- Culyt, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Well this is ripe for abuse, just photoshop some news article and get a few of your friends in on it to post commemorative messages to make the page look legit.
- diemunkiesdie, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2I'm sure they have a system in place to re-open profiles. After all, there will invariably be someone who gets reported dead by some prankster and ends up getting locked out of their profile!
- AmnesiacJack, on 10/27/2009, -2/+4So I heard Kayne West and Carlos Mencia died this week...any one notified Facebook yet?
- dtele, on 10/27/2009, -1/+3This is going to open a can of worms, unless there are some very neat legal disclaimers
- dtele, on 10/27/2009, -1/+3But he CHOSE to limit who could read his profile.
WHO has the right to make that information public after his death? - rossisdead, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1It's not like they're gonna login and be like "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DELETED ME!"
- uncleosbert, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1more importantly, does it allow someone to take down embarrassing the drunken posts?
i hope not. - InfinitySnatch, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1Does that mean they won't show up when making party invite lists? That's always been kind of morbid...in that I always have an urge to invite them just to horrify everyone else.
- KibblesnBitts, on 10/27/2009, -1/+2I've always wondered what the etiquette was for deleting deceased Facebook contacts. A couple of my friends died tragically and at a young age. I didn't know them very well, but I was an acquaintance and knew them enough to be Facebook friends with, but nowhere near good friends with. I've wondered if it was bad to delete them from your friends list or not. What is the etiquette?
- cptcliche, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1Holy crap, out of our gene pool with you!
- geopiscean, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1Cool...This is a good function by Facebook. Atleast our friends who have passed away remains there for some time...
- k3rfuffl3, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1If you're not close enough to hear that they passed other than through Facebook how bad could it be? It's certainly not going to be an instantaneous process since the last thing people think of when someone dies is to update their Facebook status as deceased (I hope), and if it somehow manages to be instantaneous Facebook allows you to control what you see on your news feed.
- FLarsen, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1I'm thinking doesn'''''''t.
- planktonattack, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1The only reason they are doing it is because, at least in the UK, there has been a massive public backlash against the recent design shake-up that invites you to "get back in touch" with people in your contact list you don't speak to anymore: it was suggesting talking to people who have died and a lot of people got angry.
- audiophile214, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1Once it's deleted, it's gone, and Facebook isn't going to go through the trouble of trying to recover the data.
- SplitRaindrop, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1News sometimes travels slow when you don't have mutual friends sometimes. Say an ex-coworker that you were close to at work but maybe didn't know their family. I also have friends that are from or now live around the world. Once again the family may not think to contact me but that doesn't mean I don't care and wouldn't be saddened by a death. Since I'm still rather young (25) most deaths of people I know are sudden and tragic. For example an elementary school classmate of mine was mudered by someone from Craiglist.
Facebook allows some control but they are notorious for adapting privacy settings after the fact. I can see something like "Joe Shmo's profile has been memorilized" popping up in people's feeds and then facebook will get complaints. Or what if you go to someone's wall and all of a sudden see that the other comments refer to the person as being deceased. I hope they will post the link to the obituary or something so you can get additional information. I've had that happen where I see memorial groups created but no explanation of how the person died. - oreobarbie, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1The thing about facebook is that people kind of don't use it in a way I think would be appropriate after death.
I don't want my facebook sticking around after I croak. If you want to look at my pictures, that's cool, but to have an online profile for someone who's passed away, I think is a little tasteless. - freshgrease, on 10/27/2009, -1/+1Almost as cool as some of those WoW funerals.
- Haz3rd, on 10/28/2009, -1/+1It was a Seinfeld reference.
- dijkstra22, on 10/27/2009, -1/+1A girl that a bunch of people I graduated with knew passed away about a year ago (maybe a little more). I didn't know her, but it pisses me off that her friends talk to her through their own facebook statuses. It's ridiculous. If there is a heaven or hell, I bet she's not sitting there reading YOUR facebook page.
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