The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook?
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The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook?
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#3It would be fascinating to calculate when the dead on Facebook will outnumber the living. Anyone able to interpolate based on the data provided + Facebook's growth rate?
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#4It would be fascinating to calculate when the dead on Facebook will outnumber the living. Anyone able to interpolate based on the data provided + Facebook's growth rate?
sounds like a movie.. i like how you think.
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#5Reminded me of this XKCD http://xkcd.com/686/ Which just made me sad.
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#6It would be fascinating to calculate when the dead on Facebook will outnumber the living. Anyone able to interpolate based on the data provided + Facebook's growth rate?
If the number active (alive) Facebook users grows at a sufficient exponential rate, e.g. each new generation has at least 2× the users of the last generation, then the answer would be “never”
Edit: Um, humans do grow in population in an exponential pattern… how long do you think the population has been at 6.8 billion?
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#7Had never heard of 1000memories. Interesting idea, but how can they really promise to be around "forever?" Does anyone know how they plan to make money on their "free" service?
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#8I recently came across some YT channels of high-altitude climbers who'd deceased in their endeavors, with their last videos remaining.
http://www.youtube.com/user/karlunterkircher http://www.youtube.com/user/FredrikEricsson http://vimeo.com/joepuryear/videos
Creepy. There'd be an opportunity for digital wills, so a next of kin can claim passwords for ghosted accounts. Maybe some type of program that various sites can adopt, and users just register their account names with the program's hub site.
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#9This seems like a (morbid) opportunity. An AI to keep these people posting on each other walls.
I'm reminded of a short story by Larry Niven... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenseless_Dead
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#10It would be fascinating to calculate when the dead on Facebook will outnumber the living. Anyone able to interpolate based on the data provided + Facebook's growth rate?
According to world population on wikipedia it seems like more people live now than have died since year 1.