My coworker passed in February and recently LinkedIn generated her automated 30th work anniversary post. Tons of people commented "congrats." I commented "rip 💔" and after my comment people kept commenting "congrats." Your LinkedIn connections do not know or care if you are alive or dead. Everyone's just doing what the algorithm wants. It's dystopian.

I don't understand the point that you're making.

There are certain YouTubers I have started liking recently that already passed away 3+ years ago.

Facebook is now home to close to 1 billion dead people accounts.

Nothing's wrong with the algorithm, a certain ad campaign isn't gonna make efforts to find out if you're alive. It's an automation, it will kick in by itself at said intervals until acted upon externally.

may her soul Rest In Peace 🙏

@SidTheITGuy I don't think its going that way, more like "I said this person was dead, and everyone kept congratulating them even after my comment" but then again if depends on a lot of factors.

Maybe your comment was ignored because it was taken in a different context. Commenting RIP does not necessarily indicate that the person in question is dead. It could be taken as a salty comment for someone being in a company too long and thus why people decide to ignore it and just keep saying congrats.

Most contacts on linkedin do not even constitute acquaintances, so there is that.

Can't blame them since your comment lacked context. That was her 30th work anniversary isn't it? People didn't understand when you only write three words: rest in peace.

@SidTheITGuy I think they're talking more about people rather than the algorithm. People just mindlessly say congrats even though they don't actually care. If they did, they'd realise they were congratulating a dead person.

@SidTheITGuy I could argue that the entire user base of Facebook is dead. They just don't know it yet.

"I know they’re probably pretty proud of the work that went into the “Year in Review” app they designed and developed, and deservedly so — a lot of people have used it to share the highlights of their years. [...] This inadvertent algorithmic cruelty is the result of code that works in the overwhelming majority of cases [...] Where the human aspect fell short, at least with Facebook, was in not providing a way to opt out. The Year in Review ad keeps coming up in my feed, rotating through different fun-and-fabulous backgrounds, as if celebrating a death, and there is no obvious way to stop it." (Eric Meyer: Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty, 2014)

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/...

@usr--2ndry
Facebook: Remember when <person> got diagnosed with terminal cancer? What a fun time that was! Here's some sparkles to celebrate!

@saucyatom

https://youtu.be/mBwrbDLx5I8/...

Maybe watch whole series, or at least this episode from the beginning. It is a reference to "sparkles".