What happens to dead Facebook users?

[Quagmire]

They say that less people use Facebook today then back in 08 but a lot of people die so do the accounts of dead people count then and who deletes them

[Don]

If an account hasn;t been used in 6 months they aren't counted in statistics, as for deletion, usually no one deletes them

[Chris]

I'm not sure that's correct back in 2008 there was only 100 million people on Facebook, where as today the latest figure stands at 1,310,000,000+. So there is more people using Facebook today than in 2008 as the figures suggest. Regarding the death of a Facebook user then it can be different, Facebook will shut it down if they're told the user is deceased or inactivity is detected, family members tend to shut them down or they maintain them. Such as is the family of a friend of mine who passed away a couple of years ago, her Facebook profile is still active so that family and friends can still post messages etc.

[abraXus]

nothing happens - facebook cant know when people die - to think anything else is just ridiculous

[Akira]

Actually with in some period of time, Facebook has removed those account that are not running.