I keep getting Facebook reminders to wish my dead daughter happy birthday and every time I click not now instead of turning them off because seeing her name pop up is the only time I feel like she still exists somewhere.
More people experience this than they realize.
Platform algorithms can become inadvertent sources of connection to the dead that people simultaneously resist and depend upon.
“Where Are You with Social media memorialization?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.