LibraryScenariosWhen social media birthday reminders for your deceased child become both painful and necessary
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When social media birthday reminders for your deceased child become both painful and necessary

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.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Platform algorithms can become inadvertent sources of connection to the dead that people simultaneously resist and depend upon.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media memorialization?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.