I have that same absurd and hopeless reaction when I see the profiles of several people close to me who have passed. It's not entirely specific to Facebook. I s

I have that same absurd and hopeless reaction when I see the profiles of several people close to me who have passed. It's not entirely specific to Facebook. I still have this impulse to call my childhood best friend when I hear about something we were both way into in junior high -- he passed only a couple years ago, but never had much of a Facebook presence. In fact, he was on Facebook under a pseudonym, which I only found after his death, as we had drifted apart over our twenties. It was really tempting to send an Add Friend request, even knowing it could never be accepted. For those deceased people I knew who have a larger Facebook trail, that feeling that they're still a Facebook message away is even stronger. I don't think it's a bad thing though. That little bit of nostalgia helps keep the memories fresh.