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churchsign.jpgA few days ago, I planned to whine to you all about how I wasn’t able to follow any more. I don’t know why. Well meaning folks tell me that I just need more folks to follow me because my “ratio” is off.  Well, I am following about 3,900 people and 3,500 folks are following me. How is that so bad??  I don’t really know. I canceled any extra Twitter services that might be screwing things up and it all has amounted to nothing. I supposed I just have to hope for enough “Follow Friday” love to get me enough followers to make it all up.

However (remember I said I “planned” to write about Twitter), plans changed yesterday when a friend of the family passed away at her home. Just clarifying that it was her home. She was not over at my place, so no reaction to really bad recipes was involved. Though she was never a picture of health, it was a shock to us all. She leaves behind a husband, two children, a son-in-law and a little grand-daughter.

She was on Facebook and so is her daughter. Her daughter is a friend of mine on Facebook.  I called my cousin to let her know what happened, as I didn’t want my cousin to find out what happened based on people saying they were sorry on the Facebook wall of the daughter.  At this point, I really think I should have given everyone fake names, because its going to get too confusing to sort this all out, even though I am very clear in my mind who is here.

So I called Bictoria (not her real name), my cousin, to tell her the news before she found out on Facebook or casually posted to Velissa’s (not her real name) Facebook wall something silly not knowing what just happened. Of course, Bictoria told her parents, Jharlotte and Vohn, what happened.

The news got around to my 82 year old Grandmother, who told us, “When I die, don’t put me on Facebook!”

Grandma is a hot ticket; the type that will live to 110. I said, “Don’t worry Grandma, when you die, Facebook will be passe’ and there will be something even better.”

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4 Responses to “Dying on Facebook”

Chrissy Says:

Sad that you lost your friend, sending my thoughts to you and her family and to her, of course. Your grandmother’s hilarious. I know my grandma (91) would say the same thing. On a similar note, my cousin passed away late last year. It was horrible. Every once in awhile Facebook reminds me to reconnect with her. At first, I think about the digtal you living on long after you’re gone, but them I’m just happy to see her again.

You should contact Twitter. I just started @shopdomestica and I’m following all kinds/people with no prob. Something’s up. Maybe something’s not verified – I had some issues when I first got on her with an unverified email account. Anyway…

thesnackhound Says:

Been there. Hopefully Twitter will actually respond this time. I would follow your other twitter account…but I can’t. I need more followers before twitter will let me. Yep, Grandma is a hoot. You should have met her mom, Tricky Edna, who is no longer with us.

Kathy Says:

I can’t imagine finding out about someone’s death on Facebook before I heard it anywhere else. What a strange new world this is, huh? On a related note, I plan to write a final post for a friend to post on my blog should I unexpectedly die. My husband will have instructions to send the post to my friend in the event of my death (he wouldn’t be able to handle the posting, technically or emotionally). People say that’s a weird thing to do, but I would want my readers to know where I went instead of just dropping out.

thesnackhound Says:

Kathy,
I hope when he has to post that, blogging has gone the way of the dodo bird, as you will be 120 years old when you die. I don’t think that’s weird to want your readers to know. If a famous author died, there would certainly be a press release about it. It sort of makes me look at abandoned blogs in a different way. There are a few of them where someone wrote voraciously and then stopped and fell off the face of the earth. It makes me wondered if they lost interest..or passed away.

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