6 Hauntingly Memorable Final Social Media Updates Of The Deceased

"Famous last words" from the social media generation.

In this day and age, with so much of our lives broadcast for the entire world to consume via social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, we€™ve become immortalized in the same way that many artists do €“ albeit often for much less flattering reasons. While the advent of these sites has given anyone with internet access a platform to espouse their views and opinions €“ something that isn€™t always a positive €“ it€™s also been a useful tool for allowing public figures immediate access to their followers and vice versa. A tweet or a status update is like a snapshot of your life; a moment or thought frozen in time to reflect back upon. Apps like Timehop make that even easier, providing a flash back at a previous update on a specified date. Much is made of men and women uttering their €œfamous last words€ - quotes attributed to celebrities and historical figures in their dying moments. In eras past the veracity of those statements could always be questioned, but in today€™s society a person€™s final words and thoughts are often put on display for everyone to view. Recently, sci-fi icon Leonard Nimoy departed this life; leaving behind an intensely poignant final tweet, but this wasn€™t the first example of someone€™s last foray on social media being particularly shocking, prophetic or thought-provoking. Here€™s 6 Hauntingly Memorable Final Social Media Updates Of The Deceased
 
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Brad Hamilton is a writer, musician and marketer/social media manager from Atlanta, Georgia. He's an undefeated freestyle rap battle champion, spends too little time being productive and defines himself as the literary version of Brock Lesnar.