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[Seamas]

When a person with a facebook page dies (car wreck, gang war, etc), what becomes of their page?  Does it disappear after a while, stay frozen in time forever, or is there some FB task force hired to go around cleaning up the pages of dead people?

Considering that there's 500 million facebookers, I imagine at least a couple must die every day and people don't want to unfriend their friends just because they're dead, to get them off their page. 

I've just never thought of this before, and I don't have one myself so I'm just curious, is all.

[Zrk2]

I think it gets locked and left how it was.

[Retro]

I read an article a while ago where someone took over a Facebook account and used it to spam advertisements on that account's friends' walls, but the person whose account got taken over was dead. Was a bad scene.

[Seamas]

Interesting.  Which raises another question - when someone dies, does their page/wall fill with emotional outpourings of love, loss, and such from their friends and family, or is it almost taboo to touch it at all?

[Zrk2]

I have no idea, I just joined.

[Simmura McCrea]

I have no idea, I just joined.

Then get some friends and fake your death. We must learn.

[Zrk2]

I go to school with a bunch, over summer maybe.

[Tellemurius]

my grandmother's account is still up after 2 years from year death and i get recommendations to friend her, kind of a sad reminder.

[RedKing]

AFAIK, the page is just sort of left as it is. There may be some exceptions in high-profile cases such as suicides who use their page to post a suicide note.

[freeformschooler]

I believe that one time I had an extended relative who died of age and was on Facebook. A few of his old friends apparently told Facebook this and they locked it, leaving it up as a memorial.

[Urist is dead tome]

Could this be the rise of "cyber memorials"?

I thought of it first!

[Helmaroc]

A friend of an acquaintance of mine recently died (very young, I have no idea what cause), and his page was used by his friends to post memories and R.I.P.'s and whatever else you say to dead people and their families. The guy's family thanked everyone who posted etc. and I assume they could eventually lock it or whatever.

It was bizarre to scroll down his page and see his last posts before you started to see the R.I.P stuff...

[freeformschooler]

A friend of an acquaintance of mine recently died (very young, I have no idea what cause), and his page was used by his friends to post memories and R.I.P.'s and whatever else you say to dead people and their families. The guy's family thanked everyone who posted etc. and I assume they could eventually lock it or whatever.

It was bizarre to scroll down his page and see his last posts before you started to see the R.I.P stuff...

Yeah, even just imagining that situation makes me sick to my stomach. There a person is, going about their day -- "pretty good sammich i might make me another here in a lil bit" and then that's it.
I'm leaving this thread, it's too sad in here. Or maybe that's just my interpretation.

[Sowelu]

Mmm, sammiches.