Facebook Launches Virtual Memorials for Dead Members
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Vivek Krishnan in Branding
Social website Facebook has gone a level above to connect to its members. Facebook will give options to members to create a memorial page to its members who have deceased. The family members and friends are being asked to inform them on the event of death of a Facebook profile holder. Following which, Facebook will create a memorial page for the member.
The Facebook users must submit “proof” in order to let Facebook create a Memorial page for its deceased member. It can be done by submitting either an obituary or news article.
The main reason why this feature has cropped up is that although a person stops using Facebook, many of his/her information and updates are almost impossible to erase from the web.
“We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it’s important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialised.”
-Max Kelly
Max Kelly is the head of security at Facebook, he wrote this on the official Facebook blog.
Cafe World
13. Mar, 2010
What’s funny is that facebook has now banned all these applications from facebook that create memorial pages. They could be put to good use, but ya people took these too seriously. Personally I found these hilarious and killed off a couple friends pages who weren’t too happy
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