19 July, 2014

A Positive Example of the Internet Comforting a Grieving Stranger - Cari Romm - The Atlantic

A Positive Example of the Internet Comforting a Grieving Stranger - Cari Romm - The Atlantic: And for others, like this family, it comes in the form of something much more rare: crowdsourced comfort, delivered by total strangers from across a digital divide.

Selfishly, it's comforting for the rest of us, too. The longer we exist on social media, the more loss we'll all eventually live out through our computer screens. Let's hope that this, rather than funeral selfies, becomes the future norm for public grief.