So apparently FB has updated its policy on profiles of dead members. It can be turned into a “shrine” or memorial, or your relatives can have it deleted. But they can’t root around through the messages. When you die in the real world, people rifle around through your stuff, no? So why can’t we do that in the virtual world?

So death in the online world is a real thing. Trouble is, sometimes you just don’t know if someone has died or if they just abandoned their account. I’m sure there are places I don’t visit anymore. But do they think I’m dead? Probably not. Occam’s Razor- when you have two possibilities, the simpler one is most likely. “Oh they just got bored with this site” is more logical than “he must have died”.