The accounts of people who died on FSBOC soon exceed those living in 2070.
Based on the current growth of Facebook, a study by Oxford University found that at least 1.4 billion of the 2,330 million users, or 61 percent, would die before the end of the century.
This will be the first time that the number of accounts of people who have died in direct accounts exceeds the world's largest social networking site.
Researchers say the news can force society to consider the long-term consequences of using social networks.
"These statistics raise new and difficult questions about who is entitled to all these data, and how they should be dealt with in the interests of the families of the deceased and their friends," said research author Karl Oumann.
Research co-author David Watson believes that Facebook should allow historians to access data in the future as a way to understand history.
"Never before in history has such a vast archive of human behavior and human culture been collected in one place," he said. Controlling this archive will control our history, meaning it is important to make sure that access to this historical data is not limited to a single profitable company.
It is also important to ensure that future generations can use our digital heritage to understand our history. Facebook, which also owns Wesab and Engström, is the world's largest social networking platform. It has a system in place when users die, allowing them to create an inherited contact to control their personal file once they die. The page becomes a memorial space instead of an active profile.
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