FB no no "...deeply saddened by the passing of grandma. "

[bonquiqui]

And the first response was " grandma died?"    (the original poster was a childhood friend)




Then I uncomfortably closed that post

[McGavin]

H's cousin did that. She posted something about the passing of Uncle Joe and we were all WHAT?!?! but it was a different Uncle Joe from the other side of her family.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

This has nothing to do with 'shrinking away', what I was originally looking for, but this wins.

[snickers]

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Also? THIS is what happens when your Family Death Handler comes down with an Emotion.

[mrsjuleshs]

Sounds like my family. I found out an aunt who I had been super close to when I was little, my dads step mother (aunts mom) and an uncle (aunts brother) on that side passed away through Facebook. My mom ripped my dads brother a new one over it. They basically abandoned us after my dad died when i was 16 and never call or anything but will send a card begging us to visit. Months later we found out my grandfather was in the hospital through Facebook. When my uncle contacted me on facebook and berated me for not contacting the family, I had enough. I said my piece and haven't spoken to them since. I'm not playing games. If you care about your family and want them to know what is going on especially something as important as that, pick up the damn phone. Posts like this break my heart. No one should find this out on fucking social media!

[eb777888]

Ugh! That's how we found out about H's grandma. People are so fucking quick to tragedy whore.

[tdk2]

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So. My sister who is just a bag of fun issues had to find out our grandpa passed away via email. This was not due to lack of trying- my parents were out of the country and unreachable. My aunts, uncles, brother, and I all tried calling her for 3 days. She was refusing to answer or cal anyone back. So, eventually we came to the decision to email her so we could move on with the planning and notify everyone of funeral times. She was LIVID and kind of jerky considering she would not answer anyone's calls.


Fast forward 4 months later. Our grandma dies. Everyone's working on notifying all the cousins. What does my sister do? SHE WENT ON FACEBOoK AND POSTED THERE WITHIN THE FIRST FEW HOURS. And she KNEW not all the cousins were reached. A few found out by her asinine fb post. I couldn't believe her after she was so beyond pissed a few months prior.

[bex1973]

Uggg. This is H's family. We found out his uncle died that way this summer and then last week found out his aunt (his Dad's twin even!) died via FB. It's so tacky! I do think it's an ok way to notify people AFTER you know for certain family knows!

[LynnWriter]

That's how I found out my grandfather died. While I was on vacation.

[vaportrail]

I had this happen too. My H asked me if I'd checked FB that day and when I said no, he told me that my mom posted that my grandmother died. Felt awesome.