This is a California news story, published by TechCrunch.
For more California news, you can click here:
more California newsFor more social media news, you can click here:
more social media newsFor more news from TechCrunch, you can click here:
more news from TechCrunchOtherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best tech news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like social media news, you might also like this article about
Facebook. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest dead friends news, own Facebook data news, social media news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!
other Facebook usersTechCrunch
•68% Informative
Facebook’s algorithms can’t comprehend death. It knows there was a time when I was often tagged in photos with these people, and that we interacted with each other's posts.
Unlike iMessage, my message history on Facebook has never been deleted. I try to picture what fifteen years of my own Facebook data looks like, stored somewhere in some warehouse in California .
So, Facebook will continue to tell me to celebrate my dead friends’ birthdays, while I know full well that they’ll never age beyond their mid-twenties . But if I had to choose, I wouldn’t want to memorialize my friends’ accounts. It’s just one more piece of evidence that their deaths are real..
VR Score
62
Informative language
55
Neutral language
54
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
39
Offensive language
not offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
not detected
Time-value
short-lived
External references
6
Source diversity
3
Affiliate links
no affiliate links