So, what does facebook do with your page when you die?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - So, what does facebook do with your page when you die?

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:00:22 PM EDT

I just got a facebook 'suggestion' to 'poke' a friend.....who was buried about a month ago.

Clicked on their page, others are writing comments to her, saying they had similar suggestions....weird.

Do they leave your page up forever? This seems like some sort of massive facebook fail.......

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:02:35 PM EDT

[#1]

Nothing, what they are considering is making the pages a memorial. But nothing more than rumors about it.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:03:10 PM EDT

[#2]

I'm guessing they will close it down if it stays inactive for a certain amount of time..

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:03:58 PM EDT

[#3]

How is facebook going to know they died? The page will just "rot" like any unattended webpage out there.

Facebook probably has some kind of automated cleanup utility that deletes unmanaged pages after a certain amount of time with no updates and no responses to automated queries.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:04:45 PM EDT

[#4]

How would they know? Do they get a copy of death certificate when people pass? Unless someone tells them they have absolutely no idea who is dead or not. How is this a Facebook fail?

I am guessing you didn't think this through all the way before you blamed them.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:06:29 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
I'm guessing they will close it down if it stays inactive for a certain amount of time..

Doubtful Facebook like many sites make money off how many accounts they have which is a number they use to show potential advertisers. The only reason they would close it is by request or if for some reason they needed to free up memory. Which is unlikely. A facebook acct is money in the bank for them used or unused.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:06:42 PM EDT

[#6]

Can't speak for facebook but my wife's myspace page is up 3 years after she died. I log in every now and then to see what friends request and stuff are on there but myspace doesn't care one way or the other.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:08:29 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
How would they know? Do they get a copy of death certificate when people pass? Unless someone tells them they have absolutely no idea who is dead or not. How is this a Facebook fail?

I am guessing you didn't think this through all the way before you blamed them.

A 'fail' on facebook (telling me to poke a dead person...) is not the same as saying facebook is failing......you failure!

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:10:28 PM EDT

[#8]

Nothing, i'm guessing.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:10:57 PM EDT

[#9]

I doubt they'd do anything unless the executor of the estate or a relative contacted them and requested something.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:13:24 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Can't speak for facebook but my wife's myspace page is up 3 years after she died. I log in every now and then to see what friends request and stuff are on there but myspace doesn't care one way or the other.

I'm sorry for your loss. If you don't mind my asking, do people still post stuff on her page now?

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:15:27 PM EDT

[#11]

A close friend of mine died in February and his is still active.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:17:57 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Can't speak for facebook but my wife's myspace page is up 3 years after she died. I log in every now and then to see what friends request and stuff are on there but myspace doesn't care one way or the other.

I'm sorry for your loss. If you don't mind my asking, do people still post stuff on her page now?

Yah, she died on Nov 30, 3 years ago. Her brother posted something on the 29th. I usually post something on her birthday. It is a shrine more than anything.

Her brother committed suicide a year later and nobody knew is password or anything. The myspace people won't release that information.

Posted: 11/2/2009 12:18:45 PM EDT

[#13]

I got a "link accepted" from someone over a year after they died.

very strange. his facebook page is still active... I'm sure his parents have taken it over.