[spiralcoaster]

You're right. I don't think I could continue living if one of my friends died and a I could no longer view their social media profile on a site designed to foster in person connections. I really can't think many things worse than this.

[delis-thumbs-7e]

You are saying you would kill yourself if you could not see you dead friend on some app? On the contrary it should be easy for a relative to remove a deceased individual from social media, especially so that they are not captured to be zombie-bots liking some far-right posts years they have been gone. Meta doesn’t give a shit about this, but tapping phones would actually solve this problem by itself. If you are not online nor tap phones with anyone for say a year, your account dissappears.

[KolmogorovComp]

You missed the tongue-in-cheek.

[xp84]

If that happens, just steal their phone and keep tapping it monthly. It's what they would have wanted.

[rahkiin]

Once this is actually needed, they can add a feature for marking someone as deceased. It could freeze the relationships, disallow new ones, disallow any new content, mark person as dead.

[jamespo]

I think you meant this snark for reddit?