New Facebook Sanctri app provides private space for users to mourn loved ones' deaths

A new app for the social networking giant Facebook lets users create memorial pages for their loved one who has passed away and allowing them a private virtual space to mourn the loss.

The app called Sanctri has been developed by Jono Milner, who got the idea of creating the app when his friend passed away and he wanted to express his loss not on his page, but on a separate space as Facebook is a very public forum.

According to ABC News, Milner created Sanctri so that it could serve as a separate space from all of Facebook for people to collaboratively griev.

A Sanctri page’s administrator can determine whether the deceased’s page can be seen and modified by any user, or if only a select group of users can contribute.

Milner said that the app can also serve as a platform where people can pay tribute to the deceased who couldn’t attend the person’s funeral or wake.

The report said that Facebook allows users to submit a memorialization request and turn a deceased person’s account into a memorial page, but as it can be prone to mistakes as in one incidence, the owner of the page wasn’t actually dead.