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“She Announced Her Suicide Via Facebook”

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And not one of her over 1,000 Facebook friends reached out to her to help.

Forty-two year-old Simone Back announced her intention to commit suicide in a status update on her Facebook page.

According to the Daily Mail, Back, who committed suicide on Christmas Day, wrote in her Facebook status, “Took all my pills be dead soon bye-bye everyone.”

What followed was a series of callous posts from some of Back’s Facebook friends “Some of the Facebook friends posted messages calling her a liar and one said it was ‘her choice’.

Seventeen hours later, police broke down the door of Back’s flat on Montague Street, in Brighton, and found her dead.

Back’s mother told the Daily Mail that none of her daughter’s online friends attempted to help her in person.

Back is not the first to announce her intention to commit suicide via Facebook. In 2010, a Rutgers University student, Tyler Clementi, who posted a status update on Facebook that read “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry” and his body was found soon after in the Hudson River.

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71 thoughts on ““She Announced Her Suicide Via Facebook””

  9. “Are all of your Facebook contacts really friends?”

    No Ms. Bell – Facebook “friends” aren’t really your true friends even if they send you cutesy messages and tell you how much they “love” you.

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    2. They are merely virtual “acquainte­nces” but the relationsh­ips aren’t REAL or deep. Unless you start up affairs and such.

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  10. As a whole I’m not against the Facebook idea but when I read such things as this heartbreak­ing post it makes me glad I have not participat­­ed in it.

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  11. It’s entirely possible that most of her friends never saw her suicide posting. if she had over a thousand friends they didn’t see dat shit….

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      1. so “the world had grown cold, dark and indifferent” from her social networking? yeah ok, there’s more to it obviously.

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      2. Whoaaa “thank you JESUS” i aint living for the world!
        and people who committ suicide are “NOT SAVED” if she were, she’d KNOW that “THE WORLD IS SUPPOSE TO *GROW COLD, DARK AND INDIFFERENT* for it is written people!!!

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      4. @Rezzie, you off ya game a little aren’t you boo? you gave US no scripture with that comment. lol

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      5. Ashanti,
        There are a lot of other explanatio­ns for her death than that the world has grown cold, dark and indifferen­t as the result of social networking­.

        If this woman was mentally ill and had burned her bridges with friends who lived near by, I can understand no one jumping to her rescue. As tragic as the result of this incident is, I don’t think it is fair to blame all of her friends.

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      6. MRS,
        Who’s to say that all her nearby real life friends even went on facebook that day? Not eveone check their facebook pages daily.

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  12. That’s Facebook for you. It’s a social network forum, and it’s all about the word (cause erbody a christian nowadays) “looking good”, “being around good looking people”, “showing off”, “argueing” and “making fun of everything and everyone”.

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  13. Maybe Facebook should make things a bit easier and quicker and more straight forward in ways to get help for their users. Maybe then the death of Ms Simone Back may bring about less suffering for others.

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  15. SMH @ “no one personally helped”, as if they are supposed to arrive at the door and remove the pills from her hands. GTFOH
    90% percent of facebook users have no idea where their on-line friends live hell or who they actually are in some cases.
    Most friends probably blocked her, a constant stream of drama-fill­ed posts long before this tragic day, they prbly thought: “OH FUCK THIS” I’m tired of this drama driven bitch. So they IGNORED her.

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    1. Maybe none of her friends were local. Maybe none of them logged on in time. Sad times we live in. but i aint killin myself i don’t care how dark it gets.

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    2. I think it’s very probable that her close friends did not see the post in time, although I would hope that if I did something like this casual acquaintan­ces would call 911..

      Lastly, this does not seem like a cry for help anymore than the poor Rutger’s student ‘jumping off the GWB’. It’s pretty stark, and in past tense. ‘Took the pills going to die soon.” Maybe its just a public suicide note, because it does not seem like she intended for anyone to stop her.

      So sad, to be so despondent and alone on Christmas. God rest her soul.

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  16. You cannot blame those left behind for someone who takes their life. Even if she had been helped, it’s likely she’d try again. No one can help, really they have to fight their way through it like we all do. May she rest in peace.

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    1. AMEN—> when some people are really not that important!
      I visit Blog Queen’s page alot..becuz from there you can access everything i.e., her websites and this blog, she’s true to her word. her fb page is for business purposes only and im impressed with that.

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      3. @anthony, she’s not the type. but i can tell you that alotta guys from her past try to USE wanting to “buy her books” to try and set up dates with her. lol….she even handles that well. 🙂

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      10. “YO Zion, Brown e-stalking you dude.”

        “Hellz to the NAW (SAY IT AIN’T SO…)”
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        @ MAN & YVONNE
        ..I caught that…LMAOOO

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      15. Yes Ya’ll, Ertime Zion posts…here comes Brown…so i would say, “YES” “YES” and “HELL TO THE 10th YES” that she has an e-crush on him. Poor thang!

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