Sociology
The Emergence of Digital Mourning Practices and Virtual Cemeteries
Quick fact
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?