When does grieving become..weird?

[The Curmudgeon]

So, Prince died.

Obviously very sad, obviously a huge loss.. I've went down this path here before.

And that's that. All you can do is continue to listen to his music, maybe get other people listening.. I mean, what else CAN you do? As fans? That's pretty much it, right?

Well, not if you're on a Prince fan page on Facebook, of which there are many. Because if you're on one of those things, seemingly all you can do is fucking GRIEVE. And it's beginning to piss me off.

Hey, I was a Prince fan for 20 years. Bought everything he'd ever done, worshipped the guy. But it seems that we're in a culture now where being sad and moving on isn't enough, you've got to ramp that shit up to 100.

Example? If there's a Prince photo shared on the page, or a song or whatever? I guarantee most people have put that little fucking "crying" icon next to it. We get it. He's dead. It's sad. And every other comment is how they "miss him so much" and still cry everyday and all that shit. Cut it out.

Am I being insensitive to other people here? Because to me it seems like a game of "how sad/how much of a REAL fan are you?" And I'm not playing.

[trashcanman]

No, you are being logical, but consider the culture that has developed on the internet. A bunch of primadonnas sharing every fucking thought and feeling they have on a worldwide public canvas in hopes that EVERYONE will see it and pay attention to them: the most important person ever. Naturally, if you want people to pay attention to you instead of the seven billion other less important people, you have to ramp it up and show everybody how much more important and poignant your feelings and thoughts are in comparison to everybody else.

tl;dr - People are using somebody else's death to bring attention to themselves with over the top displays of emotion.