Apple just announced that Steve Jobs has died

[Johnfromokc]

On Twitter, someone recently said: „Wer bei jedem Promi-Tod anmerkt, wie viele Leute zugleich verhungerten, sollte das unbedingt auch auf der nächsten Beerdigung vorbringen.“


This means something like: "Those who always need to mention the thousands of people having died of hunger while one prominent person died, should also mention this when attending the next funeral."
(I hope, I translated it clearly enough so that the intended message can be understood)


(I don't understand what makes it that difficult to just shut up and accept that there are people who feel close to Steve Jobs and thus express their grief. No one is forced to feel the same, but please be that large-minded to accept other people handling things in another way than you do.
Moreover, it should be somehow natural that one feels closer to a person who somehow affected our daily life than to an anonymous mass of people one never got to know)

(Sorry, but I am so fed up with it at the moment. Wherever people talk about Steve Jobs and express their grief, other's appear just to swing the moral hammer...)

:mad

Bravo! :shesaid

 

[porterjack]

On Twitter, someone recently said: „Wer bei jedem Promi-Tod anmerkt, wie viele Leute zugleich verhungerten, sollte das unbedingt auch auf der nächsten Beerdigung vorbringen.“


This means something like: "Those who always need to mention the thousands of people having died of hunger while one prominent person died, should also mention this when attending the next funeral."
(I hope, I translated it clearly enough so that the intended message can be understood)


(I don't understand what makes it that difficult to just shut up and accept that there are people who feel close to Steve Jobs and thus express their grief. No one is forced to feel the same, but please be that large-minded to accept other people handling things in another way than you do.
Moreover, it should be somehow natural that one feels closer to a person who somehow affected our daily life than to an anonymous mass of people one never got to know)

(Sorry, but I am so fed up with it at the moment. Wherever people talk about Steve Jobs and express their grief, other's appear just to swing the moral hammer...)

:mad

It is the feeling close to Steve Jobs that is the whole basis of my statement, how many knew his favourite colour, what his birthday was, his wifes name and other such things

Many of those who grive his passing might not have recognised him in an airport lounge

 

[HK]

There are people who become part of your life because of their presence, not their actual proximity.

I didn't cry about it, but hearing that Steve Jobs had died did give me a moments sadness, because I've grown up with him as the face of Apple - I'm a big fan of the products and have watched him talk online many times. He wasn't a personal friend. But he was part of the background of my life. I'll be sad when my favourite author dies too, because there are people who touch your life regardless of whether they're actually literally within it.

 

[redliner]

My mom had cancer. WTF does that have to do with steve jobs.

BTW had to edit this

It is to bad that he died. RIP to him. I am just saying the out pouring of grief just seems over exagerated to me.

 

[itsmeJonB]

The quotes, posters, the slogans "three apples changed the world" macros, the videos, the iphone silence your phone for one min images, the cry baby vlogs, the media coverage, the hysterical fanatics.
People who should be grieving are grieving in private the rest are cam whores
The internet is the reason Jobs is probably not resting in peace