EQUTE — What exactly happens to our social network pages when we die? It’s an interesting and seasonally morbid question of our digital age.

Max Kelly, of Facebook, wrote a post on the topic recently, unveiling so-called memorialized profiles pages. The pages allow only accepted friends to see and comment on profiles of the deceased. Kelly also mentioned that the deceased will no longer appear in the “suggested friend” box as a haunting digital ghost.

Far from deleting the profile, Kelly sees the memorialized posts as a virtual gravestone at which people can come and remember the good times. But should these profiles be kept alive when the person behind them has died?

Say the deceased didn’t take Facebook all that seriously (I know, blasphemy) and turned their personal page into a personal gag. Is it a good thing that their cheeky sense of humor lasts forever, or their last drunken status update be burned into the annals of internet history?

The entire topic serves as a good reminder not to embarrass yourself on the Internet — what you say online could be there long after you die.