Michael Jackson is dead. It is weird how the death of a person you never met, can affect you. But then Michael Jackson was part of our lifes, since we were young. For people of my generation he was one of the artists who accompanied us when we started to discover, well everything you start to discover when you are 13: love, friends, music, parties. So he did form part of our lives, like a good friend, who after graduating from High School falls out of sight, and occassionally you will hear some gossip about them and just wonder what the hell has happened to them.
But now we live in times of facebook, and I really think that just as there is a before and after Internet, there is also a before and after Facebook. Now, in real time, we can follow what our friends (also known as close friends, friends, and people I just met once for 5 minutes and later would have forgetten about, if we weren’t friends on Facebook) have to say about Michael Jackson, how they say it and what their favourite songs were. I even found out about his death on Facebook! Because nowadays it’s not Yahoo, Google, or any news page I open first when connecting to Internet – it’s Facebook!
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