Sir, – According to a BBC report, Facebook is in danger of becoming a giant graveyard.
Apparently, at some point, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones – and for those left behind, it is transforming how we experience the death of those around us.
Thus, when a person passes on, their Facebook page is still available to all “friends on Facebook”.
There is obviously a difficulty for the “friend” who does not know that the person has died.
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Perhaps Facebook might address this by changing access rules so that someone who has not used the site for a month must sign in again.
– Yours, etc,
FERGUS JORDAN
Dublin 4.