The prospect of that resource disappearing “can bring about a sense of mourning again,” Gabriel said. Looking through a late loved one’s social media can be both a healthy way to process grief and gather as a community in remembrance, Gabriel said. “In this modern age, we have these electronic reminders of people - (including) little snippets of a thought they had on a particular day or pictures that they shared,” said Shira Gabriel, professor of psychology at University at Buffalo. Memorialized accounts show the word “Remembering” next to the person’s name. Other social media sites have found ways to allow people to mourn those they've lost.įacebook and Instagram allow users to request an account be deactivated, or a memorialization of the account. Twitter backed off an attempt to purge inactive accounts in 2019, years before Musk arrived, due to a similar backlash. It is something that social media platforms have wrestled with for recent years. In addition to memories and physical traces left behind, snippets of lives are have are now being captured in the digital space. The advent of social media has come with new way in which people mourn, returning to the place where they connected with friends and family in the past. is super important to me,” Reed, 43, told The Associated Press. Others shared similar experiences of pain upon learning that the account of a deceased loved one had vanished. Reed's tweet recounting her shock over the loss of the account has received tens of thousands of responses. In place of Jessica's page was an "account suspended” message that suggested it may be in violation Twitter rules. Reed immediately returned to Jessica’s page as she had done a day or two earlier after learning of the purge. That decision has been met by an outcry from those who have lost, or who fear losing the thoughts and words of deceased loved ones linked to now-inactive accounts. Last week, owner Elon Musk announced Twitter would be purging accounts that have had no activity for several years. Twitter became one of the places where Emily processed her grief and reconnected with a sister she describes as almost like a twin. For much of the last decade, she’s visited Jessica’s Twitter page to help “keep her memory alive.” WASHINGTON (AP) - Emily Reed lost her younger sister Jessica more than 10 years ago.
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