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12th February 2015
03:26pm GMT

“Family members will tell us ‘I really want to communicate information about the memorial service with this person’s friends’,” said Vanessa Callison-Burch, Facebook product manager.
“The idea of a pinned post comes from there. People typically don’t think about this very much until they have an experience of loss.”
The feature is now available in the US and will be rolled out across other Facebook sites in the coming months.
It comes after the introduction of a memorialization system where people can let Facebook know if a user has passed away.
The question behind a user's online presence once they have passed away has been subject to much debate in recent years.Explore more on these topics: