Facebook wants you to reconnect with ex-lovers, pets

GnomeQueenGnomeQueen The Lulz QueenMountain Dew Mouth Icrontian
edited October 2009 in Science & Tech
Facebook wants you to reconnect with ex-lovers, pets

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  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    Ouch, I hadn't thought of that angle. So far, I've liked the system. Searching for breakups and removing those from the possibilities definitely would have been smart. I don't think there's a "dead" flag for it to use, though.
  • GnomeQueenGnomeQueen The Lulz Queen Mountain Dew Mouth Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    There have been a lot of twitter comments and facebook messages along the lines of "Facebook wants me to reconnect with my friend Dylan...who was murdered 6 months ago." and so on.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    They want me to reconnect with my brother who I spoke with earlier today.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    Kwitko wrote:
    They want me to reconnect with my brother who I spoke with earlier today.
    That's forever in internet time.
  • GrimnocGrimnoc Marion, IN
    edited October 2009
    Well, it does make sense that it would recommend users to reconnect with their dead friends. I mean, they haven't talked to them for awhile. Amrite?

    *On a more serious note, of course it is going to suggest friends that have passed away. Their account has been dormant but not deleted, and like somebody already said, no one is going to be flagging the account as deceased.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    The deceased problem has always puzzled me. So many sites simply never expire accounts even after months or years of inactivity. At this point the Internet is rather young, but what happens a few decades down the line when many of the denizens of the tubes start dying? There's going to be all that meaningless data taking up space out there. These are the things that keep me up at night. Welcome to my messed up mind.
  • mjolliemjollie Texas
    edited October 2009
    The deceased form on Facebook...

    http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=deceased
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