Facebook will have more dead users than living by 2098

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Facebook will have more dead users than living by 2098An interesting fact has emerged about Facebook. The social media site which has made ways into peoples’ live across the world so swiftly will not have the same charm by the end of this century.
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A statistician from University of Massachusetts Hachem Sadikki has been quoted as saying that Facebook – which has 1.5 billion users worldwide as of now - will turn into the world's biggest virtual graveyard by 2098.

What does that mean? Because the website refuses to delete dead users and instead turns the account into a "memorialised" version, it will have more accounts of the dead than the living users.

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"Facebook's refusal to automatically delete dead users and the plateauing membership of the site means that the living will be outnumbered sooner than you might think," the report released by Sadikki says.

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He assumed two things in his study: Facebook's growth will begin to slow soon, and it will retain its existing policy on how to handle dead users.

It’s pertinent to note here that a blogging company Digital Beyond has claimed that nearly 9,70,000 Facebook users will die this year alone across the world which is far more as compared to 385,968 in 2010 and 580,000 in 2012.

FACEBOOK'S DEAD POLICY CONTROVERSY

The website's policy has attracted criticism from users in the past as it showed the photos of dead ones in its "year in review" videos till 2015. Facebookers have also complained about receiving the birthday alerts of dead users.

Facebook has tried to solve this problem by asking users to appoint a "Legacy Contact" before they die. The "Legacy Contact" is able to administer the page after a user passes away by writing one last post and even approving new friend requests. The contact can even update cover and profile photo.