So a girl in the area in which I live just recently died.  It’s a terrible, awful tragedy, which demands all the sympathy and sensitivity one can offer.  However, I’m not completely sure the taken reaction of the masses is appropriate.  There’s a lot of tweeting, facebooking, etc…and that’s fine.  It’s just that, a lot of it comes from people who never even met the girl.  

A bit ago, my young friend whom I loved very much died in a crash.  What seemed like instantly after, another girl I knew, a friend, died in a crash—she was also very young.  In both cases, there was a similar influx from all these kids who had never heard of them before.  Their close friends and family were all getting thousands of friend requests and writing on their walls things like “I didn’t know her and I don’t know you but…”   I suppose it’s fine to offer support to a stranger, but there is a gnawing feeling that some of these people are just drawn to tragedy-drawn to mass feeling.  

At what point does it become insincere, or rather, at what point does it cross some sort of line?  


  1. naturalanomaly said: This was my exact reaction. It’s weird how people can be so desensitized to the deaths of, say, hundreds of people abroad or a homeless person or basically just anyone, and yet stuff like this happens and suddenly everyone’s as caring as can be.
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