The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook in 50 years

A new study by the University of Oxford's Internet Institute predicts that the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook by 2070.

Last week, Carl Öhman, and David Watson of the University of Oxford's Internet Institute, published a predicting the number of dead profiles will outnumber living profiles on the social network by the year 2070. "Facebook is merely an example of what awaits any platform with similar connectivity and global reach," he added.

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BISouthAfrica Facebook will be dead in 10 years.

BISouthAfrica That is already the case. Almost all currently on facebook are dead from the feet up.

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