Will you live on after you're dead and buried?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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If you have a social Media account then your life may go on in perpetuity.
Figures released yesterday showed that in 2016, 8000 users died daily. 428 an hour. In the first 10 years of Facebook, 30 million users died.
Today? 312,00 users die every month.
Unless you totally delete your account before you die then your account content will remain.
A third party can request the removal of your inactive account but a Death Certificate must be produced.
Even if you manage to completely deactivate your account, those people who interacted with you, exchanged Photos/Messages with you, that content will remain on their account.
 

Bretrick said:
If you have a social Media account then your life may go on in perpetuity.
Figures released yesterday showed that in 2016, 8000 users died daily. 428 an hour. In the first 10 years of Facebook, 30 million users died.
Today? 312,00 users die every month.
Unless you totally delete your account before you die then your account content will remain.
A third party can request the removal of your inactive account but a Death Certificate must be produced.
Even if you manage to completely deactivate your account, those people who interacted with you, exchanged Photos/Messages with you, that content will remain on their account.
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Holy CRAP! Stay away from Facebook if you want to live. :eek:
 
When I pass away, I know my loved ones will keep my memory alive. Like these.......
I know the charity I gave $5 to, about 30 years ago, will continue to send requests for donations. Then Direct TV will continue offering great savings for eternity. And every 4 years, politicians, who have yet to be born, will be asking me for donations. If there is any hope of getting cash from me, dead or alive, someone will be knocking on my tombstone.
 
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Once the heirs spend the inheritance, we will be forgotten. My wife and I have plots and have prepaid all the arrangements, so there is nothing for them to do when we pass on. Will they come out to the cemetery and pay respects and place flowers? Ha, I seriously doubt it. My wife and I go 3-4 times a year to visit and it gives us a peaceful and good feeling. But I think younger generations just don't do that very much.

Seriously, I think they would prefer their loved ones just get cremated and have their ashes spread "wherever", and that will free them of any sense of obligation after the fact.

Goodness, I sound bitter, and I guess I am somewhat. But that's the way I see it, and "it is what it is".
 
As long as my descendants keep having children, a part of me will continue to live. For all else - words and all - it’s like the tree that fell in the forest with no one around to hear the sound.
 
Bretrick said:
If you have a social Media account then your life may go on in perpetuity.
Figures released yesterday showed that in 2016, 8000 users died daily. 428 an hour. In the first 10 years of Facebook, 30 million users died.
Today? 312,00 users die every month.
Unless you totally delete your account before you die then your account content will remain.
A third party can request the removal of your inactive account but a Death Certificate must be produced.
Even if you manage to completely deactivate your account, those people who interacted with you, exchanged Photos/Messages with you, that content will remain on their account.
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I have found 3 friends from the past on Facebook who had died. I was searching their names to try and reconnect. Two were younger than me and one was older. Someone wrote tributes on their FB pages and that is how I found out. I grieved privately. Their flames went out, but their memories live on on FB.
 
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