Facebook Friend Recommendations From The Grave

Every time you visit the Facebook homepage you receive recommendations about potential individuals that you should friend but what happens when the person being recommended is dead? That’s exactly what has been happening to one of my family members for the past week and when I asked her about it, the response was understandable, “It’s a little bit creepy!” She then asked me what to do to remove it.

The way that Facebook’s system works is that when they learn that somebody has passed away, they switch the profile to memorial status.

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