Based on research workers, the social media giant will become the largest virtual graveyard in the world by the end of the century as there’ll be many more profiles of people that are dead than of users that are living.

This can occur as the web site will not delete dead users and instead turns the accounts into a “memorialised” variant.

Sadikki, PhD candidate in statistics at University of Massachusetts, said the amount was worked out by him by assuming that the increase of Facebook begins to slow shortly.

business Digital Beyond that was blogging has asserted that almost 970,000 Facebook users will expire this year alone across world which is much more 385,968 in 2010 and 580,000 in . 2012

Sadikki additionally presumed the social networking web site will keep its present policy on the best way to deal with users that were dead.

The web site ‘s policy has brought criticism from users previously as it revealed the pictures of dead ones in its “year in review” videos (till 2015). Facebookers also have complained about receiving the birthday alarms of users that were dead.

Facebook has attempted to solve this issue by requesting users to make a “Legacy Contact” before they expire.

The “Legacy Contact” can dole out the webpage after a user passes away by composing one last post and even approving new buddy requests. The contact may also update profile and cover picture.