Social media and grief: how to respond online to someone’s loss, and what the experts say about commenting with emojis

Grief is everywhere. It always has been, but before social media it was easier to pretend it wasn’t. Open Facebook, Instagram or TikTok now and the suffering is omnipresent – the loved one who died of Covid-19, the unwelcome health diagnosis, the fetus that never bloomed.Expressions of online grief proliferated during the pandemic – some people are lamenting monotony, some are unpacking traumatic loss. The suffering are posting with the hope of connection. But do the people reading the posts…

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