The internet is a great thing most of the time and a digital wasteland the rest of the time.

So many times I have researched a subject only to find a story from 1999. Well, it turned out that Facebook is not only the same but many colleges agree that there will come a time that dead people will out number live ones. You see, when a person passes away, their Facebook account can live on as an online memorial, or a digital celebration of their life.

Seems nice however, the social network's policy on deceased users could come back to haunt it many years from now, when the dead outnumber the living. According to the calculations,of several universities deceased Facebook users will overtake their alive counterparts this century – by 2098, to be precise.

Nice sentiment or creepy?

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