A dead friend seemed to contact me on Facebook. The truth was sadder | Akin Olla

A good password today may not be secure in two or three years , let alone the decades by which our social media accounts may outlive us.

One study estimates that there are likely tens of millions of dead people on Facebook and there will likely be hundreds of millions by 2060 .

To prevent this army of ghost accounts from rising, we need to radically address the underlying poverty driving low level scammers though all of that may be impossible without addressing the exploitative system.