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It is estimated that in 2098 there will be more dead Facebook 'users' than live ones
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:21 pm
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Facebook has 1.5 billion users now. And according to the Digital Beyond, an online legacy planning company, millions of them are already dead. Often when people die, their loved ones turn their profiles into memorials, digital tombstones that friends and family can revisit in remembrance of their life. If every Facebook user who dies is memorialized, at what point will those digital tombstones outnumber profiles belonging to people who are still alive?
I asked a statistician to calculate the year it might happen, taking into account Facebook's growth, demographic data about its existing global users and death rates from the Centers for Disease Control. I reached out to a dozen statisticians about the project and almost all of them said it was simply too complicated to calculate. But the heroic Hachem Sadikki, a Ph.D. candidate in statistics at University of Massachusetts, was willing to take a stab at modeling a projection.
He crunched the numbers and found that dead users on Facebook will surpass the number of living users sooner than you might think—in the year 2098.
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:22 pm to weagle99
I'll bet it happens a lot earlier when facebook is no longer fashionable.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:22 pm to weagle99
The living will all be on Spacebook at that point anyway.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:22 pm to weagle99
They're predicting facebook will still be around in 80 years?
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:23 pm to tom
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tom
myspace smh
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:23 pm to weagle99
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He crunched the numbers and found that dead users on Facebook will surpass the number of living users sooner than you might think—in the year 2098.
Considering it came out in like 04-05, I actually figured it would b sooner than that.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:25 pm to weagle99
starting with mikelbr? 
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:26 pm to weagle99
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He crunched the numbers and found that dead users on Facebook will surpass the number of living users sooner than you might think—in the year 2098.
That's actually later than I would have thought.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:27 pm to weagle99
RIP WikiTiger
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:27 pm to weagle99
I do find it interesting that if profiles of dead users are allowed to remain that their progeny will get to see their posts and pictures and get some sense of who they were. I did not get to know my grandparents very well so it would have been fascinating to get there opinions (if they post them) on world events and see pics of their day to day lives.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:28 pm to weagle99
OH haha, nm. Im so fricking dumb sometimes.
This post was edited on 6/16/17 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:29 pm to The Mick
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Well that's not surprising in any way, shape, or form. No shite.
especially if they are going to continue taking selfies on railroad tracks.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:31 pm to weagle99
quote:not something I might think about
sooner than you might think—in the year 2098.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:34 pm to ThuperThumpin
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o it would have been fascinating to get there opinions (if they post them) on world events and see pics of their day to day lives.
Probably would be a lot of racist shite and complaining that kids in those days had gotten soft and the world was doomed because of their liberal arse opinions on whacky tabbacy and sex
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:35 pm to Winston Cup
quote:More like MyFace.
myspace
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:43 pm to tom
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I'll bet it happens a lot earlier
It already isn't fashionable. Facebook is for old people. The youngins use Instagram and snapchat.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 2:46 pm to upgrayedd
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They're predicting facebook will still be around in 80 years?
I don't think it's that outrageous of a prediction. Companies with far fewer than 1/5th the market share of humans on earth have lasted far longer..
Posted on 6/16/17 at 5:12 pm to weagle99
Depresses me like Hell when I stumble across a former classmate's Facebook who died from an OD
Posted on 6/16/17 at 5:14 pm to wildtigercat93
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Probably would be a lot of racist shite and complaining that kids in those days had gotten soft and the world was doomed because of their liberal arse opinions on whacky tabbacy and sex
sounds like they wouldn't be wrong about the last 2 thirds of that
Posted on 6/16/17 at 5:22 pm to weagle99
Can we speed that up to 2018?
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