I just realized I have three dead Facebook friends

[LuckyTheDog]

How many do you have?

[we can do it]

1. I have 0 facebook friends.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

2. I try not to think about it.

I keep hoping that they will get back on and let everyone know they are OK and that they have just been getting their lives back in order after the tornado.

[HappyMe]

3. No dead.

I only have about 20 friends (family), and I have my account locked down as much as I can.

[Arugula Latte]

4. One.

It's eerie, especially when I get suggestions to recommend a page to her.

[LuckyTheDog]

7. I know how you feel

When I get notifications about their birthdays, I want to cry. But I can't bring myself to unfriend them.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Yes, one of my former choir directors died two years ago, and his FB page is still up

But he's not the only one. I keep getting suggestions to friend people I know are dead because they were friends with one of my friends.

[Wait Wut]

5. Two.

An ex-bf, and one beautiful woman. I miss them both.

[Still Blue in PDX]

6. I have three. nt

[LiberalEsto]

8. One

and he is greatly missed by many

[pipi_k]

9. As far as I know

I only have one dead Facebook friend. She passed away in September.

But I have one dead cousin and also my brother.

I don't know if my cousin's family has, or will ever, have his page memorialized (so it can't be deleted), but after my brother passed away I had his page memorialized.

I visit my brother's page every so often to leave songs and poems. Sometimes I can even fool myself into believing he can read what I post.

[No Vested Interest]

11. Ah - so that is how the problem of a dead friend is handled?

I didn't know you could have someone memorialized.
And the family has to do it?

I have one dead friend - she died this past spring, a real loss to me and my family.
I've noticed that my brother, who hardly uses FB, has a friend who has been dead for several years.

Because of these two, I have wondered how many on FB have died, as that artificially raises their count.
Does FB have any way of knowing and/or deleting dead people?

I also wonder how many fake accounts FB has.
I notice it in the Letters to the Editor section of my digital newspaper, and it ticks me off.

[loli phabay]

16. i guess you need someone you trust, kinda like a porn buddy

or your memorial page could go well off.

[pipi_k]

17. Yeah, I had to

send them the online link to the obit notice in our local newspaper and proof that I was a family member. Since my name was in the obit and matched up with my Facebook profile name, there was no problem.

They also request things like the email associated with the account, etc., which I didn't know, but the obit notice was enough.

That means if/when the email account associated with the Facebook profile is ever deactivated, it won't affect the person's page.

I don't know if Facebook has any way of knowing about or deleting dead people other than if someone reports it. They didn't say.

And the page itself doesn't change its nature...that is, if it was private before, it will stay that way. No new friend requests accepted.

As far as fake profiles...I've seen lots of them. Many involve peoples' pets. Some are just funny. Like one young family friend who hadn't been in a relationship in a long time. He created two fake accounts...one for each hand...and changed his relationship status to show that he was involved with one of his hands, if you get my drift.

It was a total hoot.

Except he forgot that his mom could see it and was all, OMG there are some things better left unseen...

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. How does one "memorialize" a page?

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I would suspect you could not memorialize just any friends page, could you?

No dead friends on FB yet, but things happen.

CC

[pipi_k]

18. You send Facebook

proof that the person has died and you want to memorialize their page.

Which basically means that it's there forever.

Some families will notify FB that they want the account removed. Others will want the page to stay.

[nolabear]

12. I think I have three as well.

Two of that three I still miss like hell. One I finally realized his insane RW diatribes, for which I finally had to hide his posts, might have been the brain tumor. Poor guy, but scary rager.

[LadyHawkAZ]

14. None yet. Hopefully none soon. One friend has leukemia

Hoping like hell he'll be on my list for a long time to come.

[loli phabay]

15. hi i am dean winchester, my facebook page is nothing but dead people

kinda weird thing to think about.

[Dash87]

19. 2

[TNLib]

20. 3

One is my husband who died last year The other is my mother inlaw who died a few months ago Facebook like life can be pretty depressing sometimes.

[Jesus Malverde]

22. Hang in there.

[Jesus Malverde]

21. I have one Facebook friend who killed himself and one orkut friend

who died of aids.

Creepy when orkut does not know and sends out birthday reminders.

[treestar]

23. None but one had a son who had died

And his Facebook page was still up.

Way back, and it might have been myspace, my niece's cousin was killed in Iraq. There was a lot of activity on his page, and some of it pretty vile, like when he first went, he had a lot of, let's say, well wishers, wishing him to kill as many sand N-----s as possible. It was sort of disconcerting. You want to "support the troops," and yet - that was pretty unpleasant. Don't know if the late soldier shared that view.

[Paulie]

24. I have three on LinkedIn