经济与社会科学2019journals.sagepub.com
死者会接管 Facebook 吗？
Are the dead taking over Facebook?
入门 · 约 30 分钟读完前置知识：社交媒体平台机制基础
导读
这篇论文研究 Facebook 上逝者账号的增长趋势，探讨'数字遗产'问题：随着用户去世，Facebook 可能在未来几十年内出现逝者账号数量超过活跃用户的情况。文章讨论了平台在管理逝者数据、纪念功能与账号归属方面的角色。
HN 关注点：社交平台上逝者账号的处理机制、数字遗产归属以及平台是否愿意认真管理这些账号——许多人有亲身经历。
HN 评论精选
这几条评论里：补充 1 亲历 3
亲历Facebook 的纪念化功能实用且贴心，但逝者名字仍会出现在推荐列表中
我妻子三年前的今天早逝（36 岁）。那几个月我用她的 Facebook 账号向全球亲友发布葬礼和追思的消息（我自己几年前已退出 Facebook）。之后我使用了 Facebook 的'纪念化'功能永久关闭账号：用户名变为'Remembering ____'，禁止登录和评论，但保留所有内容。我也提前导出了全部存档（尤其是照片）。说实话我很少再想起这件事，但我很感激 Facebook 提供了这个具体的功能。不过她的名字仍会不时在其他社交网络上以'你可能认识的人'的形式出现。
incanus77查看英文原文
My wife passed away early (36) three years ago today. For a few months, I used her Facebook account to keep in touch with friends and family worldwide about the service, memorials, and the like. At the time, I had quit Facebook myself 3-4 years prior. This was very handy for all of this news dissemination, but then I used Facebook's "memorialize a person" feature to shut down the account for good. This changes the user's name to "Remembering ____ ____", disallows future login or comments on their posts, but leaves all the other content up. I also pulled an archive of everything (especially photos) before doing this. It's honestly something I very rarely think about, probably mostly because I've disavowed Facebook for years now. But I appreciate that Facebook provided this concrete functionality. I still see her name pop up on other social networks on a regular basis (e.g. you and ____ both know ____).
亲历家属接管逝者账号会误导不知情的联系人，社会对这类问题毫无准备
我父亲几年前去世。我不得不进行一场从未想过的尴尬对话——好意地请继母停止使用我已故父亲的 Facebook 账号。我们关系很好，她无疑是出于好意，想借此与父亲保持联系。但让我（和兄弟们）不安的是，不知情的人看到那些帖子，不会意识到那不是父亲发的，甚至不知道他已经去世了。我觉得社会在这方面完全处于未知领域。
Benjamin_Dobell查看英文原文
My father passed away a couple of years ago. It was the kind of awkward conversation I never imagined having whereby I had to kindly ask my step-mother to please stop using my deceased father's Facebook account. Granted, I get on extremely well with my step-mother and I've no doubt she meant well - it's quite likely she wanted to continue to use the account as way to remain connected with my father. Nonetheless, it didn't sit well with me (or my brothers) that those not "in the know" would see those posts and not realise that not only was it not my father, but that he was in fact dead. I feel like society is very much in uncharted territory here.
亲历平台对滥用逝者账号的举报置之不理，因为活跃账号对业务有利
更糟的是，我一位亲戚近 10 年前因事故去世，他的'另一边家人'接管了他的账号，用它来辱骂事故在场者并推卸责任，非常可耻。我无论如何尝试都无法让 Facebook 封禁该账号，甚至在文本框里写'这个人已经死了！'也没人理会。Instagram 的举报系统同样没用——我关注的一位认证音乐人被黑后也无人处理。活跃账号对平台有利，哪怕是被黑或逝者的账号。
giancarlostoro查看英文原文
Worse yet a relative of mine passed away almost 10 years ago due to an accident. His "other family" decided to take over his account. They used it to spam insults towards someone who was there during the accident and threw blame for the death. It was disgraceful. There is no way for me to tell Facebook to ban the profile no matter what I tried. I see the same issue on Instagram for very specific issues you cannot report profiles. I even wrote in a textbox "this person is dead!" and Facebook didnt bother. If its an active account its good for business right? In the case of Instagram a music artist I follow got hacked. The Instagram report system is completely useless in this regard. He is a verified user too. Nothing was done and probably nothing will be done. Active accounts are good for business even if they are hacked or diseased peoples accounts (same thing tbh).
补充逝者的数字数据可能成为几百年后后代了解我们的珍贵史料
我觉得很有意思但很少被讨论的一点是：几百年后这些数据会怎样？我们有大量 18、19 世纪的日记，提供了对过去生活独特而亲密的窥视。如果我们的生活被如此详细地记录有什么好处的话，那就是在我们去世很久之后，这会成为留给后代的宝库。
tenaciousDaniel查看英文原文
One thing I find fascinating, and have not seen discussed, is what will happen to all this data in, say, a couple hundred years. We have tons of diaries from people in 18th and 19th centuries, and they provide a uniquely intimate glimpse of life in the past. If there's any upside to our lives being recorded in such great detail, it's that it will be a treasure trove for our descendants long after we're gone.
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