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This is great from @sarahmanavis on what it's like to be Facebook friends with the dead https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/05/haunted-your-dead-friends-will-facebook-ever-let-us-mourn-peace …

THANK U <3

It's so good! (During the period I briefly had Facebook, I found out about a friend's death via my "Other" folder during work, and it was... not good)

this is great. I've been meaning to write a piece like this also! In addition to this, when my grandma was ill I was going to the hospital every day and after she died, I would get push notifications from google telling me it was time to set off for "work", which was the hospital

oh my godddd that is atrocious, and also thank you!

yeah I don't know what they could do to stop that kind of thing from happening, it's just very unfortunate and wasn't very nice at the time

One year after my dad died Facebook sent me a notification to celebrate Fathers' Day with a blank square where his photo should have been