[deanmine]

We're all going to die (hopefully not too soon). And that means that someday, everyone currently on Facebook will be six feet under (metaphorically speaking).

The blog What If? recently attempted to determine when (in ballpark figures) the number of dead people on Facebook will outnumber those who are alive.

It's a morbidly fascinating question, and the unidentified blogger behind What If? is more than up to the challenge.

The conclusion: Depending on whether Facebook stays popular, the answer is either in the 2060s or the 2130s.

The blogger writes, "Based on the site's growth rate, and the age breakdown of their users over time,there are probably 10 to 20 million people who created Facebook profiles who have since died."

Looking down the road, the blogger writes, "About 290,000 US Facebook users will die (or have died) in 2013. The worldwide total for 2013 is likely several million. In just seven years, this death rate will double, and in seven more years it will double again."

The question, the blogger argues, is whether or not Facebook will continue to add more young users "to outrun this tide of death for a while."

If the social network can get young people to keep joining, the blogger estimates that the dead won't outnumber the living on Facebook until around 2130.

On the other hand, if Facebook face-plants and young people abandon the social networking site for something else, the crossover date will come much earlier, around 2065.

[Oswald2001]

Something to think about...but right now...I'm thinking about breakfast.

[deanmine]

Originally Posted by Oswald2001 ↗

Something to think about...but right now...I'm thinking about breakfast.

i know ... i was expecting to be splattered with piece of this posts. but i thought it was sorta an interesting thought

[Shakey]

My brother died in 2011 leaving one. And he still has more friends than me.

[deanmine]

Originally Posted by Shakey ↗

My brother died in 2011 leaving one. And he still has more friends than me.

Im sorry for ur loss, and also say, thats sorta a cool legacy, sorta life a fingerprint that might remain for generations to come...

[Blewvane]

4999 people i do not know.

[Faline]

Quite cool though in some ways. For instance my son will be able to use it to look back at things and be reminded of good memories from pictures to stupid things i've said etc.

[deanmine]

Originally Posted by Kelly ↗

Quite cool though in some ways. For instance my son will be able to use it to look back at things and be reminded of good memories from pictures to stupid things i've said etc.

lol... ya .. but atleast u get an edit button..... gerr

[bob351]

Got quite a few people on facebook who are dead, its creepy getting spam updates like "so and so liked this photo they saw on this app". Now I would think this would be quite impossible for the dead but who knows, might be facebook crossing over.

[yknotme]

Dead is the only way I would be caught on that site!