Based on the number of users in 2018, the analysis predicts that at least 1.4 billion members will die before 2100.
When a person dies, they continue to exist on Facebook because a password is needed to delete an account. Many profiles are left abandoned, while some people choose to transform these pages into digital memorials.
Published online by Big Data & Society, the study predicts that, based on the number of users in 2018, at least 1.4 billion users will perish before 2100. In this scenario, there would be more dead members than living on Facebook in about 50 years. The situations described in this study are based on data from the United Nations relating to the death rate of the world population, distributed by country and age range.
“These statistics give rise to new and difficult questions around who has the right to all this data, how should it be managed in the best interests of the families and friends of the deceased and its use by future historians to understand the past,” underlined Öhman.
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