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GOD ON FACEBOOK What about religion in these posts? We’ve barely touched on it.

AMANDA WILLIAMS AND MICHAEL MERTEN* found that comments on the walls of the deceased mentioning religion

varied from people feeling comforted in God’s purpose to people blaming God for taking away the deceased prematurely.

Some people claimed that because of death, their beliefs changed

drastically from being atheist to believing in God. And… vice versa.

JUST LIKE IN THE REAL WORLD, PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED.


Margaret Wertheim, author, once hypothesized that the purpose of

cyberspace is actually to create a

“TECHNOLOGICAL SUBSTITUTE FOR THE CHRISTIAN SPACE OF HEAVEN.”

Given that we can stay in cyberspace potentially forever, isn’t she right? Margaret called the identities that we leave behind after we die

“CYBERSOULS.”


“Technology has increasingly become the new god of modern life, exercising its controlling grip on virtually every facet of human existence.”

-CHARLTON

We use the words “DIGITAL AFTERLIFE” to refer to the identity that someone leaves on the web after they die.

But it’s eerie to consider why we chose that word.

AFTERLIFE.

Hmm.

ARE WE IN TOO DEEP YET?

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scroll further *study conducted by Amanda L. Williams and Michael J. Merten, Journal of Adolescent Research, vol. 24, issue 1. This is the same study mentioned in click this #11: Death Will Keep Us Together. images The screenshots here are used in accordance with U.S. copyright law for fair use, as its purpose is to identify the copyrighted websites in question and how religion plays a role on these platforms. I do not own any of the contents of these images.

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