Word: facebooked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...impulse to create such groups reflects a reflex to preserve someone’s memory virtually. With the boom of social networking sites, the deaths of a number of their users have forced many to translate their mourning into the language of cyberspace. Because Facebook gives one an online existence, users must now account for their virtual loss...
...thought the close friends should be notified as soon as possible,” Yu says, “and I thought the Facebook was the easiest way.” Yu says that the group spreads information, such as scheduled memorial services and how to provide financial support to Wang’s family in China...
...Looking at all these pictures of Hui really helps to bring him back,” Yu says. “I feel that Hui is really still with us. A person is never gone unless he’s forgotten, and with this Facebook group continually supported by all these members, I don’t think Hui will ever be forgotten...
...Duane” Meat ’05-’07 was shot in the chest while taking time off at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Meat died that morning on May 3, nearly six months ago. But until two weeks ago his virtual identity on Facebook remained alive...
...obviously I would like Hui’s profile to be around a little longer,” says Yu. “But if the taking down of Hui’s profile did some emotional damage to some of the people, then I think [the Remember Hui] Facebook group would more than make...