And in between all your firewalls, client firewalls, calls to the help desk because "hey, this program needs admin rights", modifications to the registry because the program cannot run without admin rights to the registry, spyware scans, A/V scans, and your extensive user training - do you get any work done? I see you're at a university, which means you're probably not accountable to a bottom line, but ... really? What you're describing sounds great, but here in the real world, where money matters, and IT does NOT dictate what accounting package is used, or what vendor will be supplying the next package for a certain function ... it's a little more difficult.

Amen. I work in Sundance, WY, and I've had people PISSED because I didn't respond to their text. I've had them show up DAYS later (yay Alltel).

Guess that's the penalty for living in WY. :)

I hate this kind of thing. By "keeping a memory alive", and revisiting that memory every day, I feel you can't get past grief, and move on with your life. Parents who keep a shrine, friends who keep facebook pages going forward - are you actually moving through your life?

The person is dead. They don't care anymore about Facebook. Let them fade, remember the good times you shared, and move forward. Honoring someone's memory doesn't mean canonizing them. If that person was the only thing keeping a group of people connected, then their absence means that the group should drift apart and move on - that's how humans should work.

All these sorts of things do is keep a wound open and fresh. Keep a page up for maybe a short time for those people who can't attend the funeral/wake/whatever ceremony you have, then gracefully remove the page.

Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.