Social rituals around death baffle and enrage me sometimes--especially when I'm "bereaved" of someone I'm still angry at and don't miss at all. (Grandpa's funeral was weird.) There is definitely a mourning process that happens, but my brain shorts out when I'm supposed to plug it into a social interface.
What bothers me about the media--and social networking especially--is that peoples' lives are right there under your nose, conveying a false sense of immediacy--but at the same time they stop being people because there are so many nameless, distant folks out there. So it's so easy to say something absolutely stupid that gets back to people for whom it is personal, and hurts them.
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Date: 2012-10-31 06:06 am (UTC)What bothers me about the media--and social networking especially--is that peoples' lives are right there under your nose, conveying a false sense of immediacy--but at the same time they stop being people because there are so many nameless, distant folks out there. So it's so easy to say something absolutely stupid that gets back to people for whom it is personal, and hurts them.