See what happens when social media user dies

California. More Facebook users will be dead than alive by 2065 if the social network keeps slowing growth. This is what happens to your Facebook, and other social media accounts, when you die.

Nobody ever really dies in the 21st century because even when your physical body leaves the world, a digital legacy is left behind. When you die, it doesn’t necessarily mean your social media self-dies too.

According to study reports in 2016, around 8000 Facebook users die daily, the equivalent of 428 every hour.

In the first ten years of Facebook’s existence, 30 million users died — with 312,500 now reportedly passing away each month.

In fact, if the social networking giant stops growing, more users will be dead than alive by 2065.

So what happens to your Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts when you die?

Although Facebook has measures in place for dead profiles, according to The Sun, some massive social media sites will keep accounts active long after the user has died.

If a Twitter user dies, the company says it will work with a person authorised to act on the behalf of the estate — or a verified immediate family member — to have an account deactivated.

When it comes to Facebook, the social networking site added a new setting last year that gives users the option of having their account permanently deleted when they die.

Instagram accounts can be memorialised after death but cannot be changed or updated and no one else can log in to the deceased’s account. Picture: Getty Images

Instagram accounts can be memorialised after death but cannot be changed or updated and no one else can log in to the deceased’s account. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

Like Facebook, Instagram memorialises accounts, but they can’t be changed and no one can log into the profile.

Posts of the deceased user will stay shared on the site and are visible to the people they were shared with, but memorialised accounts do not appear in public spaces like searches.

Pinterest will not hand over log in details for a dead user, but it will deactivate their account if you send an email with a list of required information, including proof of the user’s death.

If you want to deactivate the account, you will be required to provide a copy of the user’s death certificate, an obituary or a link to a news article as proof for Pinterest to deactivate the deceased user’s account. (news.com)