boingboing.net— Facebook now has a function allowing you to report that friend is deceased, so that his/her profile can be "memorialized."
Oct 26, 2009View in Crawl 4
News 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.
2balls1cupOct 27, 2009
was she hot?pics or it didn't happen
jaypoonerOct 27, 2009
i smell mischief
ktrwritesOct 27, 2009
Has anyone memorialized MySpace yet?
Closed AccountOct 27, 2009
Even in death I hope my family can't access my facebook profile. They are forever blocked. FOREVER blocked.
uncleosbertOct 27, 2009
more importantly, does it allow someone to take down embarrassing the drunken posts?i hope not.
mizuhriOct 27, 2009
Jesus Christ... I thought I had it bad.
splitraindropOct 27, 2009
News 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.
haz3rdOct 28, 2009
It was a Seinfeld reference.