Digital Memorials: A proposal for data management beyond life

With the development of apps, there is an increasing concern with the management of users' post-mortem digital legacy. In social networks, a dead user's profile can be changed into a digital memorial. However, as Facebook is a large scalable social network with many interaction and communication resources, failing to address some social web elements may cause problems to the user and hinder interaction, especially when it comes to a soft spot like death. In that context, we herein analyze Facebook digital memorials by presenting solutions based on the perspective of experts and focus group participants.

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