Thursday, October 22, 2009

Face Book's Public Babble and Death Notices


Bonjour,

Today while happily tooling around on Facebook, I inadvertently happened upon a comment made to someone else about their friend's father. They wrote that the friend had posted that his father had died, today! Horrible. Sad. A bit shocking.


Oh my goodness. There goes my happy mood. Please do not post any comments on Facebook (or for that matter verbally repeat) anything you would not want the town parrot repeating or the town gossip publishing in the afternoon social pages of the town paper.


Please DO NOT post someone's death on Facebook. Send the intended person a personal, private "message" instead.


Merci beaucoup et Au Revoir, y'all.