While not so uncommon in the 'real' world, this is quite the phenomenon for JWs... an 'official' Whitney Heichel Memorial page on Facebook has been set up and people from all over the world are posting condolences.
Personally, I think it's a good thing. But knowing how the WTS has tried so hard to limit JWs from using social networking, I can't help but think that they are not happy about such a turnout of responses from JWs from around the world to a Facebook page. I wonder if they'll bite their tongues and ride it out, knowing this a tragedy of epic proportions in their community, or will they amp up the rhetoric of the evils of social networking? Time will tell, I guess...
It's interesting to read the posts of a lot of JWs on this page however. Well, more than interesting...irritating is more like it. So many of them are making delusional statements about seeing her again in the new system. Read several posts where people who didn't know her were looking forward to meeting her in paradise. Did I sound that stupid at one time?
And the ones that really get me are the ones that make reference to how this violence is evidence of the wicked world we live in. Um, excuse me, but don't you mean, the wicked congregation you were associated with? Because the killer was living amongst you, not the world.
And one that takes the cake is the person who hopes that thousands of people will start studying with the JWs because of what happened to Whitney... like this was some grand plan of Jehovah's to have more people receptive to the JW message? Really? Wow...