Facebook suggests I "reconnect" with a dead friend
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Facebook suggests I "reconnect" with a dead friend
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#2Think they're trying to tell me something? :-)
Re: Facebook suggests I "reconnect" with a dead friend
#3Death is an awkward subject for facebook. I don't think they know how they should be handling it.
This is why I think 1000memories has so much potential.
Re: Facebook suggests I "reconnect" with a dead friend
#4You can't really blame facebook for sending messages like these when they have no idea what's happened to him.
The simple solution is to let them know: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=842#!/help/contact.php?sh...
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#5Imagine if there was a method of notifying facebook that members are dead. Now imagine the sheer insanity that would result from random people 'deadifying' their friends as a practical joke. Even if it was 'verified' by humans at some point, there would still be error and it would be a nightmare.
Getting told to 'reconnect' with a dead friend can be mildly traumatic. Finding out that your friend is dead when they're really not doesn't sound like a better scenario.
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#6Facebook has had a mechanism in place to deal with deceased members for a while now. http://www.ehow.com/how_5177993_memorialize-deceased-faceboo... .
I somewhat hate to link to eHow but all of the other links were insensitive and given that there's a specific instance here I thought it'd be better to use something that doesn't unabashedly address the deceased.
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#7Imagine if there was a method of notifying facebook that members are dead. Now imagine the sheer insanity that would result from random people 'deadifying' their friends as a practical joke. Even if it was 'verified' by humans at some point, there would still be error and it would be a nightmare. Getting told to 'reconnect' with a dead friend can be mildly traumatic. Finding out that your friend is dead when they're…
Funnily enough, there is such a way - at least, sort of. http://www.ehow.com/how_5177993_memorialize-deceased-faceboo...
Re: Facebook suggests I "reconnect" with a dead friend
#8Imagine if there was a method of notifying facebook that members are dead. Now imagine the sheer insanity that would result from random people 'deadifying' their friends as a practical joke. Even if it was 'verified' by humans at some point, there would still be error and it would be a nightmare. Getting told to 'reconnect' with a dead friend can be mildly traumatic. Finding out that your friend is dead when they're…
That's exactly what you can do - I had to last year for a friend,
see:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/help/contact.php?show_form=deceas...
Re: Facebook suggests I "reconnect" with a dead friend
#9You can't really blame facebook for sending messages like these when they have no idea what's happened to him. The simple solution is to let them know: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=842#!/help/contact.php?sh...
But you can blame them for sending out "reconnect" messages in the first place.
Re: Facebook suggests I "reconnect" with a dead friend
#10You can't really blame facebook for sending messages like these when they have no idea what's happened to him. The simple solution is to let them know: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=842#!/help/contact.php?sh...
But you can blame them for sending out "reconnect" messages in the first place.
Yeah, it's horrible verbiage, plus it's really rather self-serving on Facebook's part.
Really this is "we noticed this user has stopped using Facebook, please trigger an action so we can spam their email to remind them that we exist." It's not about helping the user, they don't send these types of things for users who are active on Facebook otherwise, but not directly interacting with you.
"Reconnect" to a dead friend is pretty worst case, but it's also insulting to be told to "reconnect with Bob" when you go drinking with Bob every week. Facebook has incredible hubris to think that if two people aren't interacting on Facebook, it means they aren't interacting at all.