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The comments here, as cursory as they may be, nevertheless contribute significantly to the crucial
attributes of the profile as a digital memorial: co-creation of remembering and the enhanced
immediacy of remembering. With regards to the former, the visitor who engage in commenting
bring in their own, often personal considerations of the past and the present. Thus the visitor
indicates her intimate relation to the posted content. The fact that the statements rarely bring into
the process of remembrance an elaborate explanation of why somebody likes particular music or
the description of feelings it arouses calls for another consideration. The case is that people, when
contributing to Facebook posts, are not in any way required to justify their thinking or beliefs. By
participating in a pub(lic) interaction they are also not required to make consistent or sensible
statements ... which does not free them (users nor posts) from politicisation.
Figure 32 | SFR Jugoslavija, Facebook profile, http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/SFR-Jugoslavija-SFR-
Yugoslavia/36436743833.
On the contrary, the Facebook-facilitated/enabled digital sociability—along with the limitations
that discourage and prevent longer posts generally being accepted, by the technology (character
limit) and the users—actively encourages brief, also inconsistent posts. As such they could easily
be dismissed as irrelevant both as a research object and politically. True, the comments in music
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