Facebook To 'Memorialise' Profiles

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Facebook To 'Memorialise' Profiles [news.bbc.co.uk]

Facebook has announced that it will be giving friends and family the option to "memorialise" the profiles of members who have died.

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 reporting a death, users must offer "proof" by submitting either an obituary or news article.

[LifeinAsia]

Mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, it sounds nice. But I would think that an obituary shouldn't be too hard to fake. How much fact checking to obit editors actually do?

Imagine trying to logon to Facebook and getting the following message: "Unable to validate your credentials- you're dead."

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This is just very disturbing.