How should social media handle death?
How should social media handle death?
Life has certainties and death is one of them and yet I see no provision out on social media to notify others the person no longer walks the earth.
Many celebrities are self-evident but here on HubPages and out on Twitter how will death be symbolized/notified? Does Facebook have a procedure/symbol to denote this?
If not, what symbol should be used?
Good question.
There are symbols to showcase the verification of emails on some social media (see the Twitter verification symbol as an example below), there should be a symbol to showcase the account is verified and the human has departed us along with who is maintaining the account.
Perhaps something more subtle like adding a simple frame around the photo of the person.
How does HP handle this? We have had members depart from us. What does Facebook do? Google+?I would imagine after a certain amount of time without activity some social media accounts are closed. However I do know of some email accounts of deceased people that appear continue to accept emails.
I also know of someone who died but his spouse and children continue to post things on his Facebook wall. Through social media I suppose we can all live forever.
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