Someone (probably a family member) accepted my friend request. Now I have a dead person on my friend's list. I know, I can delete him.

I didn't know he had passed away.

FB, the new Mormon memorial site.

Let's convert all our old ancestral files to FB friend requests.

"I accept this friend request for and on behalf of Fanny Alger.."

drewmeister Wrote:
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> "I accept this friend request for and on behalf of
> Fanny Alger.."


http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001678449923&ref=ts

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002571046970



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2011 01:47PM by Jesus Smith.

A. Why is this funny?

B. Why would you be friending somebody that you don't care about enough to not laugh at their death?

A. Because it is.

B. Because he can.

You notice the poster said "unknowingly" Latest on FB CAN delete the friend but cannot change that the person was mistakenly added as a friend in the first place.

No one is laughing at the death of someone. It humour at the situation, NOT at the death.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2011 09:24AM by acerbicobserver.

I got that the poster didn't know the person was dead when they sent the friend request. That could happen to anybody.

Perhaps I'm over sensitive since I just found out that one of my facebook friends died suddenly. This was someone I'd never met IRL, but we had an interest in common. So I suppose I have a dead person on my friends list too. But it never occurred to me that this could be a source of amusement to anyone.

Key word is *after*. OP didn't realize the person had passed until *after* they had friended them and *after* the dead person (by proxy of a relative or something) accepted the friend request.

In other words, it was the facebook equivalent of a temple proxy baptism.

I'm sorry your friend passed away. However, you friended them prior to their death I would assume. So, no humor for you. Humor for OP? Yes. But not for you, unless you accidentally friend an already-dead person and they accept your request.

In fact, I think irony is the root of all humor.

I thought the situation was WAY funny. They ought to submit it to Reader's Digest or something.


I get why that wasn't funny to you, having recently lost a friend. I'm sorry about your loss.


Whether you intended to or not, you gave the impression that you disapproved that OTHER people thought it was funny.

Oh well. If something makes me laugh, then it makes me laugh. I don't usually run something through a propriety filter and make a conscious decision to laugh. And I don't listen to people who tell me to avoid loud laughter and lightmindedless.

<shakes head>

I liked your story. Duffy's just uber-sensitive.

I have a FB friend who died of cancer and every year she gets birthday greetings from friends who clearly don't know she's passed away.

"Many happy returns, may you be blessed with health in the new year ahead, enjoy your special day."

"is there a 40 year reunion next year?"

This kind of stuff. She didn't have close family; I've reported her death to Facebook, complete with a published obituary, but they haven't memorialized the page like they claim to do in cases like this.

"is there a 40 year reunion next year?"

If you were devious minded you could write them back:

"There might be ... for you! BWAHAHAH!"

LOL what does it matter?

The atheist crowd on this board should not care LOL

And the god crowd knows the friend is in a better place LOL

So yes, the OP justifiably saw the humor in the situation.