Party Vibe

shows the level of intellect people possess these days.

on a failbook note, I’ve had to delete mine, and get a new one….so many dozy bastards adding me who recon they know me cause they saw me in a pub once. fuckin stupid

When one of my mates died when we were in high school there were people there crying at his funeral that had never even spoken to him! .. wtf?

Its sad about your mate’s wee bro and I feel for the family and friends he left behind.
WRT fb tribute pages they seem nowadays to be an invitation to jump on a bandwagon rather than posts from people who really knew them; its one of the many things about fb I don’t like along with its potential to allow stalking and the fact that anything you post on it may as well be on the front page of a newspaper privacywise. :you_crazy
People are far too trusting with their personal information and its a dangerous thing – what joe or jane public can see should not include anything that tells them where exactly you live, when you are going to be out of your home or information which could allow them to make a loan or creditcard application.

I have to say I have one but its in permanent mothballs pretty much as I don’t trust it {I still have it for lost pals to get in touch with me through though I then move to emails as quickly as possible}

I’m wondering if its how the UK (and maybe other nations) have begun to have ‘out poorings’ for bereavement and grief, as it seems to me it has changed over the years,

I wonder whether it started with Diana – as this is the first time I remember such an ‘out pooring’ of grief and flowers and things for someone, esp of whom most people did not really know other than the image she had when portrayed by the media

as you cant seem to drive past a road where an incident has happened with out seeing flowers and acknowledgement of what has ahppened,

I’m not saying this is right or wrong – I dont think it is how I would pay my respects

but I do think grief is a tricky one, and can be infectious to others around us

but I think paying respects to the family and friends left behind isnt a bad thing as they are the ones that have to deal with the aftermath –

and we need to prehaps realisie we do live in a technological era,

and this may be the first time these younger ones have experienced something like this and arent thinking deeply about it – but just want to say something that they think may be comforting to those left behind? and that using ‘social media’ sites is how they think too do it

I was asked to help my dad put up his retirements party’s photos, on facebook as a show of respect to one of his closest friends as there were alot of him in them, so even the olds are using social media sites

and I also got teary, when last week I picked them up from his wake (suicide at 52) mainly because I was so shocked at how distraught and ill my dad was (he had actually collapsed at the funeral because he was so upset he went into a hypo) and its been so hard to see how he has just not been able to process it, I think due to the mannor of the death.