Communicating from 6 Feet Under

Everyday, people are logging onto their social media sites and using it to look at pictures, news, or just make contact with people. These actions have become so natural in our everyday lives that nobody thinks twice about doing it. What people will think about twice is what will happen to their social media sites when they pass away. It is not a common thought and really makes you wonder. If the current trend of Facebook users increases at the same rate, we may have as many dead users as we have live users by 2130 and if the rate stops, the number will be the same by 2065. A lot more interesting information on what happens to different social media sites and great statistics about after you die appear on this inforgraphic.

On sites such as Facebook, your page can marked as a memorial or be deleted by your family, but if nothing is done, the site will stay the same. Other sites have different means for canceling or changing deceased people’s pages. This video talks about the Facebook options in a little more depth.

Now to me it is no surprise that something is done to your social media page after you die, but things get creepy when people are able to due things such as have their Twitter use an algorithm to send Tweets into the future that fit within the other realm of the Tweets you posted while you were alive.  People will literally be able to communicate from six feet under. To me, this would be a creepy thing to see in the future and I wonder if anyone else feels this way?  Are there any other forms such as the Twitter one that will send future messages, that you did not write and plan to send at a future time, out to the public?