From the London Review of Books
A minor issue for Facebook, as compared to all the rest...
You can live, you can die, and then you can be in limbo, somewhere in the parallel universe of Facebook, trapped in your virtual profile for ever and ever. And if there is no end, can there be any 'closure'?
The problem is, who is going to do the clean-up? Eventually, the 'dormant' accounts will probably get archived at best, deleted at worst -- a bit like dormant bank accounts (but, with those, the banks have tended to get hold of the cash and keep it, as I understand).
I can't imagine the Facebook geeks have answers to these questions, which lie somewhere beyond their limited intellectual capacities: "It was all meant to be fun and a way to find long-lost friends from college!"
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