Death and social media ettiquette

[cqaigy2]

Ah, the irony. A bunch of folks saying they don't use social media on a social media site.

:laughing:

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Ah, the irony. A bunch of folks saying they don't use social media on a social media site.

You need to get acquainted with the definition of "social media".

This is not social media. It's a forum. Like chat rooms (which are not forums), they have been around since the dawn of the Internet, long before social media was invented.

 

[Citydude]

You need to get acquainted with the definition of "social media".

This is not social media. It's a forum. Like chat rooms (which are not forums), they have been around since the dawn of the Internet, long before social media was invented.

You'd make a good lawyer.....

 

[jerrybob]

My wife and I were in a restaurant last night........there was a table of four on one side......all four were texting on their phones.....no talking. At another table......there were three people......two were texting and one was watching football. I ordered another beer and talked to my wife.......I must be weird.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Lawyer ? Yuck If he is a lawyer at least there is a good chance he is a tractor owning / using lawyer

 

[ultrarunner]

My High School niece and her friends were in a dance recital Sunday... the kids did a really good job and after a group of 10 of us went to dinner... 6 teens and 4 adults... the teens spent a lot of time on their smart phones but not all the time... maybe 50/50

What I thought was odd is they would text each other across the table... maybe silence is golden?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I'm sorry for the op's (and others) situations.

But, newspapers are dying by the day. Our small newspaper is only printed once a week. So they tape death notices to the grocery store checkout lanes and hope the word gets out. Many people miss out on funerals unknowingly.

I get on FB maybe once every few months.

Texting is turning our youth into social introverts.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Several years ago my wife and I had dinner at a nice restaurant in downtown Kansas City. Shortly after we sat down a young couple with a boy maybe 6 sat down nearby. The man arrived with his nose stuck in a phone and spent the whole dinner like that. He did not say a word to either the woman or the boy. They finished and left before we did. The woman and boy had a lot to say to each other but the man never looked up from his phone except to fork up some food.

 

[kthompson]

Carver, sorry about your brother.

 

[ultrarunner]

I'm sorry for the op's (and others) situations.

But, newspapers are dying by the day. Our small newspaper is only printed once a week. So they tape death notices to the grocery store checkout lanes and hope the word gets out. Many people miss out on funerals unknowingly.

I get on FB maybe once every few months.

Texting is turning our youth into social introverts.

There was a time when every home got at least one paper....

Mom still gets two... I tried to cancel one and they called so it is back... to be fair she takes it over to the 93 year old neighbor around 8:30 each morning where it is also appreciated.

I think only 10% of the neighbors get any paper... and my Dad was a carrier for the same paper when he was 10...