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'I see dead people' on Facebook: What is to become of our digital remains? |
The deceased are capturing Facebook.
That sick outcome was raised by the academics at Oxford University in the UK, and the broad implication is serious. Research shows that those Facebook members who have passed away will be overtaken by life on social networking sites within 50 years.
"These figures give rise to new and difficult questions, who have the right to all this data, how it should be managed in the best interests of the families and friends of the dead, and it is used by future historians to understand the past. Should, "said. Doctoral candidate Carl Oxford at the Oxford Internet Institute, lead writer
"The management of our digital residues will ultimately affect all those who use social media because we all will pass a day and will leave behind our data. But the totality of the dead user profile is also bigger than the sum of its parts. This is part of our global digital heritage, or at least become. '
Along with those lines, toldhman told USA Today that emphasizing the rights and privacy of the deceased is important.
"The demise of your biological body does not completely separate you from moral rights such as privacy and respect. Overall, Facebook has done a great job in navigating these issues, and balanced the interests of the bereaved people with the dead. Done. "
He says that this is dependent on the bereaved families "to see the digital heritage of their loved ones in such a way that both of them adjust their grief and support the community around the deadly best. "
To Aman also asks, "How is Facebook going to make these billions of profiles commercially viable?" After all, the user makes data so valuable because it is of importance in relation to targeted advertising. "But do not consume dead, so what is their storage cost?"
The study co-authored by David Watson, who is also an Oxford doctoral candidate, says, "It is also important to ensure that future generations can use our digital heritage to understand our history."
As before, he assumed that by 2018 no new user would be included in Facebook. In this scenario, the share of dead users of Asia increases rapidly, which is approximately 44% of the total till the end of the century, about half of which come from the profiles. From India and Indonesia
The second scenario assumes that Facebook will grow at the rate of 13% globally every year, unless each market reaches its saturation. In this case, Africa will create a growing share of dead users, in which Nigeria will be responsible for more than 6%.
On the contrary, Western users will represent a minority, in which only America will crack in the top 10.
As Amman says, "We want to draw attention to the fact that 'Digital Afternals' is a 'high tech' away from the Western phenomenon. It is a global phenomenon that affects all of us as a global community. .
The mortality rate in the study was calculated on the basis of United Nations data.