I came across this article about Facebook’s recently deceased user profiles being ‘preserve’ (my term actually) by the Facebook social network site. They termed it as memorializing the recently deceased. This “memorializing” feature was inspired when Facebook was still on its early stage and was composed of a 40 man team. Imagine the bonding between these team mates and suddenly one of them died…according to the article I read, right after the team mate’s death the whole team met up and one of the talks came on the memorializing of such good friend through keeping his Facebook profile yet with some changes.

Here are the changes:

* You won’t find the friends name on the suggested names list when you suggest a certain application in the social network.
* Other one is the profile can not be accessed anymore and thus hidden to any search except when you are a confirmed friend.
* Confidential data is erased.
* The profile is protected by hackers through locking it in all log-ins.
* And of course only friends can visit and post on this “deceased friend” profile page.
* Memorializing a friend means telling each other of the good things the person has done when he was still alive.

But how about the ‘pranksters’ who will memorialize still the living friends?

ANSWER: Facebook staff will be asking proofs like a link to a news announcing the death of a person or perhaps a scanned legal documents that proves the person’s death.

I never thought of the impact of commemorating or memorializing a friend death (did I say this sentence right?) until a priest explain it to us. He says that human beings are indeed a sacred creature and has angels that guard us. As soon as we die, this angel will report all the good things that your friends will share with each other. That is why in some wake, ‘memorializing’ a recently deceased friend is important so that the deceased person angels has good things to say to the Heaven’s gate keeper and thus allow passage for the dead. Either this is true or not. This idea gives an explanation why there is such thing as memorializing.

Now my question: Will Facebook Save Your Soul when you die?

At this time of high-technology and fast paced era, sometimes memorializing a recently deceased, in a city wherein almost everybody is not a friend but a passing acquaintance is of no use. But this recently deceased person has families worldwide and FACEBOOK is there only connection. Thus, memorializing still happen but with a DIFFERENT MEDIUM- facebook page and walls.

Will this count?
Will the angels still go up there and tell the Heaven’s gatekeeper that hey, “so and so has made a good impact with other people”.

And the proof? Hey, heaven gate keeper look at the Facebook page maaaan!

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