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bucolic_frolic

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3. Inactive accounts, profiles, blogs, groups are a deadweight on social media company sites

Reply to Claustrum (Reply #2)

Fri May 20, 2022, 11:01 AM

May 2022

They slow down the user experience. I guess they don't remove them because they enhance eyeball metrics. If there's anything worse than a site with 15% inactive accounts from dead users, it's 15% fewer accounts.

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Not only aren't dead people removed from voter rolls promptly [View all] bucolic_frolic May 2022 OP

Not exactly true FB gives you the option of naming a Phoenix61 May 2022 #1

I don't think it falls on the social media company to constantly monitor and take out dead people's Claustrum May 2022 #2

Inactive accounts, profiles, blogs, groups are a deadweight on social media company sites bucolic_frolic May 2022 #3

That's not true. Claustrum May 2022 #4

Dead people are removed from voter rolls as soon as possible. Merlot May 2022 #5

I don't know what world you live in bucolic_frolic May 2022 #6

Personally, I see nothing wrong with dead people staying on social media. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2022 #7