Mass Murderers On Your Friends List??!!

As mass murder becomes an increasingly popular past time in the United States there are a lot of questions we are going to have to as ourselves as a culture, especially when the mass murderers are people we know. Thanks to facebook and other social media outlets we all now "know" far more people than was ever considered possible by previous generations. The criteria for claiming to "know" a person is quite a bit less stringent than it was just over a couple decades ago. Well now people are finding they "know" plenty of unsavory characters. In a country full of mass murderers and empty digital interpersonal connections its time we lay down the ground rules for what to do when someone on your buddy list shoots up a school, blows up a bus, opens fire on a shopping mall etc etc. Say you hop onto facebook one day and you find out friend #216 has just gone on a shooting rampage through city hall kill 4 and injuring 9. What do you do next? Do you de-friend this person right away? Well you could, but then others might accuse you of being dramatic plus you might miss what people post on their page. Should you post on their page as well? Is it your duty as their friend that you are concerned about some of the decisions they've been making? "Hey bro saw what you did with those pipe bombs today....not so cool man". That might be one way to go. What if this person is more than just a digital acquaintance? What if you have pictures with this person, pictures you're tagged in?! Should you untag yourself right and try and suppress that history, or should you hop on your page and use those past documented encounters to claim to have some unique insight into all of this thus finding yourself lavished with attention? Well considering the culture I'm sure many will chose the latter. Remember there is no such thing as bad press! What if you're official in a relationship with this person? Do you break that off? Would that show up as a life event on your timeline? Would it say "Brandy and Jeff are no longer in a relationship due to his recent shooting spree"? I suppose all of these questions will answer themselves just a little bit more with each new mass killing. Maybe in the future we can go back and reference this. I'm sure we won't have to wait long.