In class, we have mentioned that many people do not take the time out of their day to let people know about major life events that have occurred. In a way, I feel like this is a huge pitfall in our society because it's very unfortunate that people cannot share big news with the people we are closest to. On the other hand, though, major news isn't always good news, and I feel that social media is incredibly useful when sharing information without having to repeat it over and over to everyone you know. I have recently experienced the first as one of my best friends from high school got engaged to one of my cousins, actually, and I did not find out until I saw a Facebook post about it close to a week after it happened. I would be lying if I said that I didn't hurt my feelings because it really makes you wonder if you weren't important enough to be personally contacted or told in person. However, another relative of mine had a daughter two years ago today, and unfortunately it was known before she was born that she was going to suffer from a birth defect, CDH. Because she moved away, she has kept up with family on updates of her condition and progress through a Facebook group. I am tremendously grateful for this because with a notification, I never missed anything that was going, especially when things were unpredictable in the beginning. I think it would be awesome if Facebook and other social media accounts would add an easier way to send these out without having to be tagged in a post or always being notified of a particular person's posts. Maybe one day the algorithms will have a better way of showing us these posts that we want to see.