👓 1.7 Million U.S. Facebook Users Will Pass Away in 2018 | The Digital Beyond

Read 1.7 Million U.S. Facebook Users Will Pass Away in 2018 by Evan Carroll (The Digital Beyond)

In 2010 my friends Nathan Lustig and Jesse Davis (founders of Entrustet, which was later acquired by SecureSafe) used data from Facebook and the Centers for Disease Control to estimate the number of Facebook users who would pass away in 2010. They updated these numbers in January 2011 and Nathan updated them again in June 2012. I picked up the task in January 2016 upon the request of a major news organization. Another recent media query prompted me to revisit these numbers and provide new ones for 2018.