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Almost anyone can fake your facebook death

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Vignesh B Original post #1
Jan 5, 2013 at 3:29 PM
How Almost Anyone Can Take You Off Facebook
Facebook has offered "memorialization" for accounts of deceased people for a while, but it seems that the bar has been lowered for how they verify the person in question is actually expired. Ideally, how it works is a friend or relative of a deceased person fills out a form from the Facebook Help section that gives the name, email, and account name of the deceased person. It also asks if you're a friend, immediate family member, or other.


Lastly, it asks for proof that your friend is dead, but it will accept a link to an online obituary as sufficient proof. If your friend has a common enough name, just Google their name + "obituary" and you'll probably find a match.

Once memorialized, your buddy will be locked out of his or her account. R.I.P.!



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theserpent
Jan 5, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Not good! Only family should be allowed, some friends might do it for revenge
Vyom
Vyom #3
Jan 5, 2013 at 3:53 PM
Wow. That is "Awesome".
Now, we just need a script to kill everyone's who's on FB! :lol:
anirbandd
Jan 5, 2013 at 3:57 PM
lol wat a noob idea
d6bmg
d6bmg #5
Jan 5, 2013 at 3:58 PM
:lol:
What an idea fb!
Flash
Flash #6
Jan 5, 2013 at 8:06 PM
Fb does lot of silly things, thinking it as innovation.
anirbandd
Jan 5, 2013 at 9:52 PM
guess zuckerberg does not certify each and every move..
newway01
Jan 12, 2013 at 7:03 PM
Now this is stupid. What if any of my friend tries to play an April fool prank by "memorializing" my account?? And does facebook provides an option to unlock the account if we "resurrect" from death?
freshseasons
Jan 12, 2013 at 7:33 PM
First Facebook has privacy issues. Almost nothing remains hidden from Facebook. And now this....

I Feel the happiest person on earth who now realizes what a precious decision i took not ever registering on Facebook .
Nanducob
Nanducob #10
Jan 12, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Many people will 'die' on April 1:(
Flash
Flash #11
Jan 12, 2013 at 9:10 PM
Celebrities often die by Twitter-rumours.
Now, its time to Facebook.
ramakanta
ramakanta #12
Jan 12, 2013 at 9:11 PM
Acttually i hate facebook
Flash
Flash #13
Jan 12, 2013 at 9:16 PM
^ Whatever you say, your avatar fits perfectly to it! :mrgreen:
ramakanta
ramakanta #14
Jan 12, 2013 at 9:34 PM
^ Whatever you say, your avatar fits perfectly to it! :mrgreen:

offtopic :: Thank you Gearbox !!

Actually i have limited bandwidth user . whenever i want to open facebook i lost 30 to 40mb bandwidth , i lost time also , Finally i decided to joined here !! Here i gain lots of Knowledge about computer, computer related problem . etc.
saswat23
saswat23 #15
Jan 12, 2013 at 10:50 PM
great trick
could someone verify this if its really working :D
gameranand
Jan 12, 2013 at 10:51 PM
One more reason for me to avoid facebook. :p
saswat23
saswat23 #17
Jan 12, 2013 at 10:51 PM
offtopic :: Thank you Gearbox !!

Actually i have limited bandwidth user . whenever i want to open facebook i lost 30 to 40mb bandwidth , i lost time also , Finally i decided to joined here !! Here i gain lots of Knowledge about computer, computer related problem . etc.
You from Odisha?
Tribalgeek
Jan 12, 2013 at 11:34 PM
this reminds me of FRIENDS episode "Ross's Memorial Service". lmao

furious_gamer
Jan 12, 2013 at 11:57 PM
First Facebook has privacy issues. Almost nothing remains hidden from Facebook. And now this....

I Feel the happiest person on earth who now realizes what a precious decision i took not ever registering on Facebook .

+1

Although i registered to check it out, when it was cool(around 2006, i guess, FB was good) and later realized it is waste of time and more of a games/dating/useless-post/photo-sharing/stalking site, so i deleted my account by 2007.

Now, with this, FB is even horrible. :facepalm:
Harsh Pranami
Jan 13, 2013 at 2:16 AM
time to switch back to orkut. :p
Neo
Neo #23
Jan 13, 2013 at 10:22 AM
:lol: why even bother bringing fb news here. This is lame.
Theodre
Theodre #25
Jan 13, 2013 at 12:38 PM
I use Fb just to keep in touch with ma friends cos the TRAI reduced the SMS no.s!! :evil: or i never would have regidtered to it!! :-|