Sad situation

I haven't blogged in forever, so I had this idea to post a quick little funny blog (which I will do still) but right now calls for a serious one unfortunately. I love social networking sites as much as the next person, but I think there is a limit to how much one should depend on them. I just found out tonight that a friend from high school passed away last week and her memorial service was today. Granted she wasn't a best friend, she was still someone I admired and respected and would have liked to have been told of her passing and subsequent service. I have since learned that it was posted on Facebook, but I kind of took the weekend off. deciding not to get sucked into that vortex for a couple days. So as a result of that decision, I shouldn't be informed of a friend's passing? When I finally found the postings that were made on Facebook regarding the tragedy, they were buried amongst many other updates. I know that at least two people who were aware of her passing have my phone number. Would a text message (at the very least) not have been appropriate to be sure I had seen the news and it didn't get buried amongst other, much more trivial postings?

I am just at a loss for words (metaphorically speaking) over this. I'm deeply saddened by her passing but almost equally saddened that Facebook was the designated source of all of the information. Have we really distanced ourselves so much from other people that we can no longer pick up the phone?

I'm just heartbroken in so many different ways...