Is Announcing A Death On Facebook Too Much Info?

Where do you draw the line between what's acceptable to post on Facebook and what's considered too much information, or TMI?

Where do you draw the line between what’s acceptable to post on Facebook and what’s considered too much information, or TMI?

That’s what the folks at Slate have been pondering, inspired by last week’s story of Deborah Copaken Kogan, the mother who saved her son’s life by chronicling his rare illness on Facebook.

This week, however, Slate‘s digital dilemma is about a woman who recently experienced the death of her mother. The daughter’s friends asked why she didn’t post a message on Facebook?

The daughter told the site that after the shock of losing her mother, she couldn’t see talking about it on Facebook, alongside her friends’ links to funny animal videos.

Well,

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