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Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on February 18, 2013, 11:31:35 AM
Is it creepy to tag a dead person on Facebook? (Like they died very recently so his account is still there, and people are remembering him.) I guess it seems like a good way to post pictures for other people to remember him, but still seems creepy to tag a dead person in a post or to post on his wall.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: OK_Cat on February 18, 2013, 11:33:33 AM
ask cns casey about ghost advice
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: steve dave on February 18, 2013, 11:33:39 AM
I tagged fatty a bunch
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: wetwillie on February 18, 2013, 11:35:29 AM
Its perfectly fine
Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Tobias on February 18, 2013, 11:38:43 AM
tag away
Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: SkinnyBenny on February 18, 2013, 12:13:50 PM
Am facing this issue myself here, great thread. :frown:
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on February 18, 2013, 12:18:07 PM
Not creepy at all. Write on a good friend from elementary school's wall who passed away too young on his birthday every year.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: The1BigWillie on February 18, 2013, 12:34:08 PM
I have someone lined up to update my status with a list of all the people I hate and post message on several walls talking crap on on people.  As soon as I day my FB is going to blow up.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: EMAWmeister on February 18, 2013, 03:24:26 PM
It's a little weird when games like WWF or Scramble recommend that I play someone who passed very recently.  Tagging them in a memorial is fine though.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: sys on February 18, 2013, 03:38:17 PM
i've thought about this recently myself.  i think the page should stay active, so people can look at it when they like.  but i understand that other people think it's weird.
Title: Re: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: bones129 on February 18, 2013, 03:42:16 PM
I have someone lined up to update my status with a list of all the people I hate and post message on several walls talking crap on on people.  As soon as I day my FB is going to blow up.

This could start a new trend in wills and estate planning. Very forward-looking.

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Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: The1BigWillie on February 18, 2013, 03:50:33 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/death-facebook-dead-profiles_n_2245397.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/death-facebook-dead-profiles_n_2245397.html)
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Shacks on February 18, 2013, 06:17:44 PM
Kinda annoys me when people who barely knew someone who died comment on the wall of the deceased about how they were such good friends and had many great memories together and blah blah blah.  Seems like they're trying to make themselves look a lot more caring and friendly than they ever were while that person was alive.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 18, 2013, 06:25:54 PM
Pretty sure all of the ladies 1bw and fanning have tried to bangwithfriends have faked their deaths
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: AST on February 18, 2013, 06:40:30 PM
maybe this is the wrong place for this but here goes

what about flowers on the side of the road

I mean sure it's cool for awhile but there's a place 1 block away from me that get's new flowers and wreaths about every 3 months, for the past 4 years

I mean isn't that what a cemetery is for

if everybody did this it would be like driving through a cemetery all the dang time

pretty morose people, stop being so selfish and put memorials where they're supposed to go
Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: steve dave on February 18, 2013, 06:42:51 PM
Let people remember people however they want. It's not hurting you.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: AST on February 18, 2013, 06:48:43 PM
you say that until someone crashes and dies in your neighborhood or your yard and then for the next four years & counting you get to look at fake flowers, mardi gras beads & plastic wreaths tastefully adorning the yard

Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: AbeFroman on February 18, 2013, 06:51:55 PM
I'm pretty sure if someone I loved died in a car wreck I'd avoid that stretch of road for the rest of my life.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 29, 2013, 07:58:23 AM
OK so what about when the dead person starts posting on Facebook? Is that weird?
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: dontfeedthebear on May 29, 2013, 08:14:07 AM
OK so what about when the dead person starts posting on Facebook? Is that weird?

I think it is.  The owner of a gym I used to go to in Omaha died a while back and someone brought his page "back to life" and even added being "in a relationship".  This status was put up when they started posting again, "Some mother rough rider tried to delete me and all my friends. Im Rock Hard (insert name here) and I aint going anywhere. If you have any photos of me would you please tag me in them so we can keep the my Legacy alive. Ill be looking over all you turds."

That's weird.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: steve dave on May 29, 2013, 08:24:23 AM
yeah, that's def. weird
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 29, 2013, 08:30:49 AM
OK so what about when the dead person starts posting on Facebook? Is that weird?

I think it is.  The owner of a gym I used to go to in Omaha died a while back and someone brought his page "back to life" and even added being "in a relationship".  This status was put up when they started posting again, "Some mother rough rider tried to delete me and all my friends. Im Rock Hard (insert name here) and I aint going anywhere. If you have any photos of me would you please tag me in them so we can keep the my Legacy alive. Ill be looking over all you turds."

That's weird.

OK that's much more weird than the dead guy I am friends with who RSVPd to a facebook event and commented on a mutual friend's video.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 29, 2013, 08:34:44 AM
This recently happened to me. I believe the mom took over his account. They'd post inspirational sayings that he use to say at family get togethers and a lot of photos from his childhood have been uploaded recently.

Side note: I recently unfollowed him on twitter. Dick move? I was afraid he'd tweet from the grave. :ohno:
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: steve dave on May 29, 2013, 08:42:13 AM
This recently happened to me. I believe the mom took over his account. They'd post inspirational sayings that he use to say at family get togethers and a lot of photos from his childhood have been uploaded recently.

that's not as weird
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: 'taterblast on May 29, 2013, 08:53:05 AM
seems like a pretty good way of remembering someone
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 29, 2013, 09:00:35 AM
Yeah, you guys are right, but it's still a lil weird.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 29, 2013, 09:03:37 AM
Well it's weird when it is just normal activity - like RSVPing to an event - not memorial type stuff.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: bubbles4ksu on May 29, 2013, 09:03:55 AM
seems like a pretty good way of remembering someone

some families are great with it, but i've seen several who are awkward or just plain attention seeking.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Rams on May 29, 2013, 09:04:52 AM
internet in the afterlife confirmed. :dance:
Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: felix rex on May 29, 2013, 09:09:58 AM
You can follow Mitch Hedberg on twitter. And royalswild. I say quit being freaked out by death. When I die, I hereby license goEMAW to retweet all my rants as they inevitably become relevant again.
Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: felix rex on May 29, 2013, 09:10:39 AM
Well it's weird when it is just normal activity - like RSVPing to an event - not memorial type stuff.

Does his status say "right behind you"?
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 29, 2013, 09:11:27 AM
Yeah, good call Felix. I want SD to take over my account when I die party rocking after a natty.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 29, 2013, 09:12:11 AM
Well it's weird when it is just normal activity - like RSVPing to an event - not memorial type stuff.

Does his status say "right behind you"?

No but I am going to the event he is "going to" so now I'll be looking for him.
Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: felix rex on May 29, 2013, 09:18:08 AM
What if, in addition to the Facebook legacy page, they also had an urn with his face on it and it was pre-loaded with all his classic sayings so at parties you could shake it like a magic 8 ball and ask him questions?

I'm pretty sure I want my family to do that with me.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Cire on May 29, 2013, 09:27:53 AM
I think it's fine, an Ememorial.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: steve dave on May 29, 2013, 09:33:14 AM
by the time I am about to die of old age at about 150 they will be uploading people to google drive.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: OK_Cat on May 29, 2013, 10:08:35 AM
i like to look up facebook pages of local people when they die to see what kind of person they were, and try and decide how they died. 
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: bubbles4ksu on May 29, 2013, 10:12:14 AM
by the time I am about to die of old age at about 150 they will be uploading people to google drive.

it would take someone at google a week to make an algorithm with a more relevant and fun bbs and twitter personality than 90% of sports fans.

what if someone were to create an entire fanbase to unleash on internet message boarding?  :horrorsurprise:
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Trim on May 29, 2013, 10:15:13 AM
OK so what about when the dead person starts posting on Facebook? Is that weird?

Not dead.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: OK_Cat on May 29, 2013, 10:16:54 AM
OK so what about when the dead person starts posting on Facebook? Is that weird?

Not dead.

 :horrorsurprise:
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: dontfeedthebear on May 29, 2013, 10:17:02 AM
i like to look up facebook pages of local people when they die to see what kind of person they were, and try and decide how they died.

As do I.  I do the same on people who get arrested, too.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: michigancat on May 29, 2013, 11:13:21 AM
grief is a weird thing. So is facebook. So there you go.

also, prayers for royalswild.
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: OK_Cat on May 29, 2013, 12:36:56 PM
what happened to royalswild?  too much seagrams?
Title: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: felix rex on May 29, 2013, 02:07:39 PM
Beer pong tragedy
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 04, 2016, 12:51:01 PM
Is it normal to make a Facebook event for a funeral? (Not from the dead person's account, I just thought this was the best thread to discuss this.)
Title: Re: Dead people's Facebook pages
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 04, 2016, 12:56:22 PM
Seems pretty efficient to me.