I have 140 Facebook friends and 2 of them are dead. But what makes it even weirder is that people are still posting on their pages.
Even though I have deleted their phone numbers from my phone and taken their details out of my contacts - I just can't 'unfriend' them.
It is comforting to be able to look at their Facebook pages and to see what they wrote in the past but what I can't work out if it is comforting or weird that others are posting comments on their Facebook page when they know the person is dead.
Even though my friends are not here any more I do find it comforting to know when I want to I can connect with them and remind myself of just how great they were and how much I miss them.
Some say nothing is new - we just have new ways of doing things. So is writing on a dead person's Facebook page any weirder than talking to a headstone in cemetery?
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I do the same thing with my friend who passed away and we are not the only ones. i know my friend's wall if full of one sided conversations his friends have with him. It is strangely comforting. no different in my opinion that visiting the grave, except peoples visits are recorded.
ReplyDeleteIf they haven't already, It'd be good for someone to save all the comments and share them with the family if some of them aren't tech savvy enough to have Facebook accounts (or signed up after their passing). They'd probably find it nice to read peoples memories/conversations.
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