Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Death on Facebook

It has happened before and will happen again. Someone passes away and people often let others know through creating facebook pages about their death to honor their memory.

Personally, having such facebook pages sometimes seem rather doing the opposite. People write their memories and prayers to the deceased. The problem doesn't rely on the fact people inform others, but the implication such networking websites offer.

Example: The deceased name is Jane Doe. What happens is that you'll find over 1,000 people "LIKE" this page. Excuse me, what is there to "like" about someone's death? "Like" about someone's prayer to the person who parted away"?

Nothing.


So, should people be allowed to do such thing? Yes or No? And why?