EDITOR — IT appears every one is now literally spending all their time on the small screens and not all are engaged in meaningful communication.
Social media has gone awry, or rather the people have gone mad abusing social media.
It is a no, no for a stranger to inform family and relatives of the death of a loved one through a public announcement.
It is taboo.
Today, horrific accidents are pictured and flighted with no warning to the viewers by the camera-happy phone owners.
Some people would argue it is relevant to pass on information. I, however, beg to differ. Content not suitable for viewers of a nervous disposition is broadcast on social media with reckless abandon.
I find it in bad taste that a death notice is flighted by a friend on facebook yet close family have not yet received the news.
Who made you the family spokesperson?
Let us observe hunhu, the missing element in most of today’s living.
If you need to inform a friend of a death, do it in private.
Only the deceased family members have the right to flight pictures of their loved ones gone to the yonder world.
In the case I join my ancestors, it is none of anyone’s business, who is not family, to advertise my final journey.
Respect the dead, the same way you respect the living.
Tariro Mutinhima,
Mt Hampden.