Facebook suggests contacting dead friends
As per
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091026/...r-870a197.html
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Facebook's latest revamp has upset some members by recommending they get in touch with friends who have died.
The social networking site, which is used by 300 million people worldwide, made the controversial changes at the weekend.
One of the most prominent additions is an automatically-generated box suggesting the user "reconnect" with a specific person they have not contacted for a while.
But within hours, dozens of users reported feeling distressed when the new feature told them to get in touch with someone deceased.
More than 900,000 have reacted against the changes by joining a group calling for the site to go "back to normal".
"Facebook just suggested that I reconnect with someone who passed away two years ago. That's messed up," one person wrote on Twitter.
Another user, Emma, 27, was confronted by the image of a deceased friend when she logged into the site at the weekend.
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I think that's just insensitive on their part. I know Facebook has a history of pushing unilateral, unfavorable changes on their users, but if they don't fix this it's really going to reflect poorly on them.
I feel sorry for anyone who got upset over this. While it's good to remember those who have passed away, I think having their profile pictures shoved in our faces unexpectedly on a website is a bit much.