How should social media handle death?

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   American_Choicesposted 2 years ago

   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?
   
   

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   Easy Exerciseposted 2 years ago

   
   
   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+?

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   tsmogposted 2 years ago

   That is a good question. Honestly I have no idea. Even in real life that can be an awkward moment in social settings learning someone has passed away. I now ponder how the 'white pages' handled removing someone from the listings when someone passed. Who is responsible for notifying all the social network entities is a question we may ask.

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   dashingscorpioposted 2 years ago

   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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