I had to really sit and think on this one rdgrad15 because what has been trending for a while now is how so many people post their lives on facebook and use twitter etc. This has led to people sharing so much about themselves as more a norm and I don't do that myself. I am a more private person and have no desire to post my private life where others can view tbh. My daughter's piers and younger post a lot on facebook and my daughter has a rather sizable following of facebook friends. Tons of horse people follow my daughter from all over. Many people that have benefited from horses she trained too.

My generation is different, although some in my generation have joined in having facebook. So I had to think about how people tend to share more publicly now. I have my business but my private life is just that, "private". I don't share my private life with customers or when I am conducting business. I don't particularly care for people being able to see what I am doing in my private life. And when it comes to experiencing a death, I keep that private too, just family and a few friends. I guess some prefer to talk about a loss in a more public way. Some need lots of attention, to be all over, I am not like that. And I respect other's privacy as well. The loss of someone is something that I consider private and it's not something I engage discussing unless someone suffering the loss brings it up which tells me they need to talk about it.

Some people prefer to mourn privately. I have noticed though how an important loss I suffered did not stop someone from having me focus on their needs even though my losses were hard on me. Idk, perhaps that's something that some people do without consideration due to this new more public form of socializing.