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Sociology

The Emergence of Digital Mourning Practices and Virtual Cemeteries

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Facebook hosts over 300 million profiles of deceased users, transforming social media into a vast digital mourning space where communities gather to remember and grieve together.

Why this is interesting

Grieving used to happen in graveyards, but today millions mourned a friend by posting on a wall that never goes away. What happens to our rituals of death when the memorial is a website instead of a stone?