Facebook to become a 'digital graveyard' as dead users outnumber living by 2070The number of deceased Facebook users expected to outnumber the living by 2070. SEE ALSO :Facebook prohibits foreign-funded ads for Indonesia electionBased on the first scenario, at least 1.4 billion members will die before 2100, and the dead will outnumber the living by 2070. However, if Facebook continues to expand at current rates - as per the second scenario - the number of deceased users could reach as high as 4.9 billion before the end of the century. "It is, or will at least become, part of our global digital heritage.” Facebook, which also owns WhatsApp and Instagram, is the world's largest social networking platform. SEE ALSO :US presidential hopeful wants to break up Apple, Google, Facebook and AmazonThe predictions are based on data from the United Nations on populations and mortality rates, and Facebook data scraped from the company's Audience Insights feature.

Source: Standard Digital April 27, 2019 07:41 UTC