Facebook Memorial Mode: I'm not dead yet

http://thulbourn.com/not_dead.html

by makmanalp • 17 years ago

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pwmanagerdied• 17 years ago

Well, that didn't take long.

mechanical_fish• 17 years ago

"If your first version is so impressive that trolls don't make fun of it, you waited too long to launch."

Methinks revision 2.0 of the Mark Your Friend Dead button is right around the corner. ;)

thras• 17 years ago

So they just memorialize the account without sending a "Hello, are you really dead email?" to check first. Design flaw.

(Hmm, maybe we need a form with "Just a flesh wound" or "I'm feeling better!" options.)

DanielStraight• 17 years ago

Most of Facebook is a design flaw. Everything since the stalker feed.

noonespecial• 17 years ago

(Hmm, maybe we need a form with "Just a flesh wound" or "I'm feeling better!" options.)

Or at the very least, a "pining for the fjords" checkbox...

jrockway3• 17 years ago

What if you're just resting?

grosen• 17 years ago

Wouldn't surprise me if this was an automated system that malfunctioned

bendtheblock• 17 years ago

That the 'death verification' failed? It says in the OP that, as a joke, his friend emailed FB to actually say he was dead.

Vincentvwy• 17 years ago

Not to mention that his name just sort of looked like the one in the actual memorial.

bmunro• 17 years ago

and that that name was the name of the reverend conducting the funeral service, not the deceased

kirubakaran• 17 years ago

I see a movie coming... serial killer memorializes victims' Facebook accounts 24 hours before the murder...

jrockway3• 17 years ago

I could see this as a "Law & Order" plot. They have done a few other stories involving social-networking sites.

nadam• 17 years ago

The solution seems to be straightforward to me:

When an account is in memorial state the account holder should be able to log in, her account then should change automatically into normal state without any administrator approval, and she should be able to prohibit her freinds to put her account into memorial state again (with a checkbox).

As she is the only person who may know her password it is not logical not to allow her to log in.

robgough2• 17 years ago

I don't think that when the account holder logs in that it should automatically revert. It's more than possible spouses etc. would have a dearly departed's password.

But they should certainly still be able to log in, and once logged in have the option to recover back from memorial mode - without needing to go through support.

Edit: Also, it would be nice to have a feature where I can nominate an "in case of emergency" contact that, if my account falls into memorial mode, they will then gain access to it... to maybe post a little more info about what happened, or contact friends that they might not necessarily know themselves, but would like to invite to the funeral?

jrockway3• 17 years ago

The great part about being dead is that you probably won't care too much about any of this. It won't be your problem, anyway.

maukdaddy• 17 years ago

cough I told you so =)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=905436

Facebook Memorial Mode: I'm not dead yet

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