---
title: "Facebook Will Stop Suggesting You Invite Dead People to Events"
description: "Facebook just announced changes to how it handles dead peoples' memorialized accounts. It'll no longer suggest that you invite dead people to events."
date: "2019-04-09"
modified: "2019-04-09"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-dead-people"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "death"
  - "facebook"
  - "memory"
  - "the digest"
---

# Facebook Will Stop Suggesting You Invite Dead People to Events

![Facebook just announced changes to how it handles dead peoples' memorialized accounts. It'll no longer suggest that you invite dead people to events.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/facebook-dead-people.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Gilles Tarabiscuité via Pixabay/Tag Hartman-Simkins\</em\>*

## Friends Forever

Facebook is overhauling how it handles dead people's profiles. For instance, it'll no longer recommend that you invite the departed to events like barbecues and concerts.

A [new blog post](<https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/updates-to-memorialization/>) by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg describes a number of changes that are meant to give deceased users' legacy contacts — who essentially act as executors of their accounts — more control over [how people can interact](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/facebook-moderators-murders-conspiracies>) with these so-called "memorialized accounts."

## Dead Alive

On one hand, it's good to see Facebook take steps to change its algorithm as the platform inevitably becomes a virtual graveyard for former users who have passed away.

But adding a dedicated "tributes" page to the profiles of the dead could be read another way: as showing that Facebook is committed, above all else, to making sure people continue interacting on the site — dead or alive.

**READ MORE:** [Facebook adds new tributes section to memorialized profiles](<https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301885/facebook-tributes-section-memorialized-profiles-commemorate>) \[*The Verge*\]

**More on digital memorials:** *[The Digital Afterlife is Open for Business. But It Needs Rules.](<https://futurism.com/companies-digital-afterlife-ethical-guidelines>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
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