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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  3236 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: David Bowie dies at 69

    ...I don't think our social media really encourages such detail and so on.

I think it's easy to be jaded about social media when a sizable percentage of people consider overlaying a flag on their profile picture a thoughtful act. Social media encourages frivolity and attention seeking. Of course that doesn't mean that many people aren't genuinely moved.