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Facebook allows memorial pages

by Scott on November 6, 2009
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Facebook has taken note of users’ connections to deceased loved ones, and last month the social-networking giant changed its policy to allow family members to “memorialize” accounts, or set profiles to have increased privacy measures while still allowing users to express grief and memories.

Susan Dumais, sociology professor, said Facebook is a modern and more public way for family and friends to grieve.

“It’s the next step to other kinds of memorials that we’ve had in the past,” Dumais said. “[In the past] people just had photo albums, and we’ve moved on to videos … Having commemorative films or videos of the loved one, and now, to have a piece of them in cyberspace, is the next step beyond that.”

Dumais said to have the existence of a deceased friend on Facebook is probably hard for people at first, but as time goes on, they likely appreciate having a piece of that person around.