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Re:Are the dead taking over Facebook? by wavefunction on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:45AM (#19778789)
My younger brother (deceased now 10 years) is still one of my LinkedIn contacts. It's not so bad as other platforms since I don't interact with LinkedIn much but it hurt a great deal at first and LinkedIn had no mechanism to retire or close his profile.
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Re:Are the dead taking over Facebook? by rootusrootus on Monday April 29, 2019 @12:04PM (#19779600)
FWIW, they do now. I just recently closed my younger brother's account (he died four years ago). They have a form for it, you say who you are, what your relationship is, and they ask for a link to an obituary. Then they delete the account.

Facebook, I think, marks old accounts as memorials. I don't Facebook anymore so I might be remembering that wrong.

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