Comment by EvanKelly

When my best friend passed suddenly, her family asked me to get in touch with everyone I could think of. I wanted to use every means possible to make sure people found out about her death personally, rather than seeing posts on Facebook. For people who I didn't have a number or email for, I tried using facebook message to ask them to contact me. Many of these got lost in the "others" folder, but I got through to some. Incidentally, this is how I found out about the "others" folder, because I was receiving sympathy and questions regarding the service from people I didn't know.

Some people make an impact on your life, but you may lose contact with them. That doesn't make them any less important to you. Her funeral was well attended by many who hadn't seen or spoke to her in a while, but they were there because they loved her.

I'm not very old, but I've found that as I age and move around, I tend to lose contact with people I still feel very strongly connected to and love very much. One of the main reasons I still have a Facebook account is that it helps me stay in contact, which is something I'm admittedly poor at.