Facebook to include memorials after complaints about dead friend prompts
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It follows some cases of members receiving updates about dead friends.
If a user is reported as deceased, Facebook will remove sensitive information such as status updates and contacts.
"When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network," Max Kelly, head of security at the firm, wrote in the official Facebook blog. "
To reflect that reality, we created the idea of "memorialised" profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed."
Memorialised accounts will have new privacy settings so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search.
what do you people think? The internet is obviously the future, the cost of placing a memorial in a cemetary is ludicrous, whereas remembering and paying your respect to the dead of facebook will be free and read by all those that loved that person, however you still have to pay the price of a headstone, but when people place ads in local newspapers to show their respect that costs a pricely sum too! now we can do it for free on facebook and write much longer meaningful messages, but how long do you think it'l be before we get charged for doing this on facebook too?
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catisablonde
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well i for one have experienced this myself. my guy best friend passed away from a shooting about seven months ago and it still hurts. facebook memorialized his page and i believe that writing on his wall is one way of healing the pain. although he cannot update us on anything i believe it is a good idea.
- 2 years ago
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catisablonde
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xJasper
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Just wait until someone comes back from their relaxing holiday away from the stresses of work and networking to find their friends have memorialised their profile.
- 2 years ago
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xJasper
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CuteBruiser
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It might be nice, actually, if the profiles were available in public searches. How else will you find out someone you've lost contact with has stepped off the mortal coil?
- 2 years ago
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CuteBruiser
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Lina1980
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That said, the longer FB is around, the more of its users are going to pass away. One of my friends died earlier this year and her wall has become a living memorial and the family use it as a way of connecting with her friends but it feeIs bizarre to have her still as an active friend. I think it's actually a natural development in the world of social networking and a positive one. Agree with your comment on the patronising algorithm, though. not that that's a sentence I thought I'd ever write.
- 2 years ago
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Lina1980
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richjm
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If somebody is dead, they're going to be too busy to update their profiles anyway so why would any updates show?
The only reason why they would is because Facebook's created a new feature which patronises people and recommends friends for them to 'reconnect with', assuming of course that it's users are all a bit too stupid to speak to people they want to without being reminded by an algorithm.
It's like having to opt out of junk mail when you didn't opt in in the first place.
- 2 years ago
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richjm
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ahappymintleaf
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richjm:
when people comment on things that you comment on, you get notified. also with photos where you and the deceased are tagged, notes with tags, ... there are few instances but they aren't uncommon.
i'm glad to hear that those who have unfortunately experienced a friend passing away are supportive of this sensitive move by Facebook. I hope I won't ever have to have a first-hand experience with it for a very, very long time.
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ahappymintleaf
