Start crying. Now. OK?

Do you remember the time everyone was frenziedly liking and sharing those morbid pictures of battered animals and abortioned babies? Do you remember how truly annoying that was?

Well, those sharing seem to have realised they were becoming an atrocious pain. 

So they left. That's all good. 

A new craze, however, seems to be pervading the net. It's equally irritating and no less pitiable. 

As a matter of fact, many have just been divinely enlightened.
How? Oh, it has just dawned on many people that in Africa there's starvation. Oh, and people actually die over there. You see, in other countries they do not. Who would have thought, huh? 

The victim, this time round, is Whitney Houston. 

Don't you believe us? (We know you do, but we need to say that to share the pictures!)

                               

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And if that weren't enough to fancy your amusement, there's more to come. 

Many have just discovered that soldiers die for us. They have only starting dying. In the past they lived forever for enroling in the army. 

But, hey, no one has yet started crying. 

Next thing we know will be thousands fetching their tickets to go to African countries and help out. Because non-Africans don't die, remember? And others will chain themselves outside the White House - and outside Castille - for all wars to cease forthwith and for all soldiers to be recalled. 

It's not that we don't think Africans should be in our thoughts. It's not that we think soldiers dying for their country aren't praiseworthy. They are. The media do their best to remind us every so often. 

Nothing of that, really. But people sharing such pictures without realising the weight they carry is plain stupid. 

It's all a question of 'monkey see, monkey do' really. And it's annoyingly frustrating to have your wall filled with photos of a dead diva being called into question because, oh well, she died now, we can use her photo juxtaposed to dying and starving people!

And that's quite apart from the fact that people like Houston (and the other ones) have dedicated their lives to entertain us. But that's a different story altogether, and we had better not put too fine a point there.

.....same thing had happened when Steve Jobs died.