Almost anyone can fake your facebook death

[Vignesh B]

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]

Not good! Only family should be allowed, some friends might do it for revenge

 

[Vyom]

Wow. That is "Awesome".
Now, we just need a script to kill everyone's who's on FB!

 

[anirbandd]

lol wat a noob idea

 

[d6bmg]

What an idea fb!

 

[Flash]

Fb does lot of silly things, thinking it as innovation.

 

[anirbandd]

guess zuckerberg does not certify each and every move..

 

[newway01]

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]

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]

Many people will 'die' on April 1

 

[Flash]

Celebrities often die by Twitter-rumours.
Now, its time to Facebook.

 

[ramakanta]

Acttually i hate facebook

 

[Flash]

^ Whatever you say, your avatar fits perfectly to it!

 

[ramakanta]

^ Whatever you say, your avatar fits perfectly to it!

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]

great trick
could someone verify this if its really working

 

[gameranand]

One more reason for me to avoid facebook.

 

[saswat23]

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?

 

[arsenalfan001]

One more reason for me to avoid facebook.

aah... sent you a friend request in fb long back

 

[Tribalgeek]

this reminds me of FRIENDS episode "Ross's Memorial Service". lmao

 

[furious_gamer]

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.