What do you do when a friend from fb passes away?
This is somebody I worked with back in the late 80's. He introduced me to the guy next door to him in the dorms, then butted in every time I tried to take next-door-guy to get something to eat. We managed to sneak away a few time without the friend and celebrated our 22nd anniversary a few days ago. The friend (we were all in the AF) got stationed about 200 miles away when we all came back to the states in '90, we visited each other a few times a year. Then he retired from the AF and moved out of state. We pretty much lost contact after that. Then a year or so ago we connected on fb, called each other a few times but pretty much minimal contact. But I still considered him a dear friend. I went to his fb page last February and was saddened that instead of leaving him a message, I was instead reading posts about how much people missed him, and a link to his obituary.
The question is, what would be proper to do? Am I supposed to removed him from my friend list? Or is it ok to leave him there and now and then post on his fb page that I was thinking about him and miss him? Post on his b-day that I wish he was here?
This is somebody I worked with back in the late 80's. He introduced me to the guy next door to him in the dorms, then butted in every time I tried to take next-door-guy to get something to eat. We managed to sneak away a few time without the friend and celebrated our 22nd anniversary a few days ago. The friend (we were all in the AF) got stationed about 200 miles away when we all came back to the states in '90, we visited each other a few times a year. Then he retired from the AF and moved out of state. We pretty much lost contact after that. Then a year or so ago we connected on fb, called each other a few times but pretty much minimal contact. But I still considered him a dear friend. I went to his fb page last February and was saddened that instead of leaving him a message, I was instead reading posts about how much people missed him, and a link to his obituary.
The question is, what would be proper to do? Am I supposed to removed him from my friend list? Or is it ok to leave him there and now and then post on his fb page that I was thinking about him and miss him? Post on his b-day that I wish he was here?