May the World Learn from this Tragedy
Posted by Jen Keller in Facebook, Social networking
This morning, on the morning of their 20th birthday, twin sisters logged on to Facebook in Australia, only to see the horrifying status updates of "RIP Chris Naylor" and "RIP Bobby." The two sisters Angela and Maryanne Vourlis, couldn't believe what they were reading. Upon calling their various family members phones, they discovered they knew no more then the girls. The family then called the police and they discovered that the Facebook updates had been correct: their brother Booby and two friends were killed in a fatal car accident. Friends of their brother had found out before the family, and then posted on Facebook. The worst news that a family can ever receive had been delivered via a social networking site. It would be my hope that the world can learn from this, and that when tragedies happen, before we post them on the web we should consider whether technology is the best way to share bad news. My condolences go out to the family.
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