To tell this guy on my FB to shut up about Peaches Geldof?

[Jesaya]

He's been ranting and raving all day about how it's her own fault and "she doesn't deserve the well wishes".

The public outpour will always be present in this day and age when someone famous passes. It may not be liked by some (I find the RIP.... Wishes whoever they are concerning a bit odd on a public forum like FB myself) but bloody hell they are aimed at the family.

Whichever way you look at it the circumstances are absolutely devastating. She clearly suffered from a serious addiction that she couldn't overcome. It's sad, I feel sorry for everyone involved. Do some people really have that little compassion that they can't see that even though it was an overdose the poor woman (along with millions of others) clearly suffered a lot in her personal life?

well, given the family aren't exactly going to be reading it I don't see why it matters really. If you don't like it don't read it, easy enough.

Personally I find all the "a family is in pieces" comments a bit disingenuous really. The family aren't going to be reading these comments, and the family would presumably be in pieces regardless of how she died.

I don't think anyone deserves to die, but I do think sympathy should be reserved for the baby who was in the house for god-knows-how long with his dead mother who put her drug fix above his welfare. I just hope he's young enough to not remember...

My thoughts are that you can judge the child protection issue and the enabling of that.

If they wasn't who they are, SS would have slapped a CP plan in place.

But that might get the thread deleated.

Just hide him OP? He wont even know.

I hide people on FB for much more trivial reasons.

Hide - he won't know.

hide the posts that offend you

personally im conflicted about her she had everything and took heroin but i feel sorry for her family so.....? i say nothing i didn't know her

He can say what he likes on his fb, it's up to you how you have your settings and whether you read what he posts.

One of the many reasons I ditched fb, I'm so much happier not reading shit like this!

Why not "Hide Notifications" from him, that way none of his posts will show in your feed, but you can still go in & look at them on his timeline if you don't want to miss out on pics of his kids....

"she had everything"

She didn't want for money, sure, but I'm not sure in what other way you can say that she "had everything". She was obviously a deeply troubled young woman who had struggled with addiction for a number of years. Doesn't mean she wasn't a loving mother, for example, and it doesn't mean she didn't see a future for herself and her family.

She was a lady who chose, as an adult, to live in the public eye. Her sister chose not to. So the public are, I believe, entitled to comment publicly on her behaviour.

You're equally entitled not to agree with their viewpoint.

There is a facility that enables you to block posts; why not do that and then you no longer need to read your family member's opinion?

Do what SeaMonkeys says - then you can go to his page when you want and look at pics etc.

I've hidden the posts, will go back once the verbal diarrhoea stops

She didn't have 'everything,' she lost her mother in the same tragic circumstances at a very vulnerable age. Money and a famous father isn't 'everything,' and just because someone is in the public eye doesn't mean we can pelt them with buns.

There but for the grace of God goes anyone's children into a world of drugs, you just never know. I would imagine Bob tried everything to steer her away from the kind of life that robbed her of her mother but unfortunately curiosity got the better of her.

People in glass houses and that...

I feel very sad for her whole family. I hate it when I realise via FB that friends and family hold some deeply unpleasant views (caveat - views that I find deeply unpleasant) and I have so many of them on hide it makes a mockery of being on FB.

Regarding Peaches, one of the final interviews she gave was for Spectator magazine and considering the timing and what followed, it is heartbreaking - it details her parents splitting up when she was age 6, then spending alternate weeks with her "chaotic" mother and then with her father who tried to over-compensate for the chaos by imposing strict discipline. Then of course her mother died when Peaches was 11. All of this in the public eye. She goes on to say how unsettling it was to meet people for the first time and realise they knew everything about her but she knew nothing about them. I'd be more surprised if she hadn't had "issues".

I also don't think it's fair to say "well her sisters had the same upbringing/problems/choices" as we all know this makes no difference to what is in someone's head. My family members have had chronic depression and/or alcoholism but I haven't despite having the same background.

I can't be the only person that has worked backwards through the timeline presented yesterday and realised that those happy, glowing pictures from recent years completely masked something else - what a reminder not to take those glossy magazine spreads as any kind of indicator of what is going on in people's lives. Same with FB envy I suppose.

Sorry OP, rambling & derailing.

fackinell
I would imagine Bob tried everything to steer her away from the kind of life that robbed her of her mother but unfortunately curiosity got the better of her.

Incidentally did you know Paula was teetotal for most of her life? I'm pretty sure this was all of the time she was with Bob. Again, sad that she will be remembered for "heroin overdose" when this must have made up a tiny portion of her life.

Sorry - I think I'm in quite a melancholy mood today.

Stary, it is sad that Paula is remembered for her OD, I think it may have been the shock factor of it all. She appeared to be a very fun loving person and a good interviewer from what I can remember. Sadly, I think Peaches will now be remembered in the same way by the public, rather than for the work that she did.

I do think a lot of Bob, he seems to have done the best he can (to an outside view.) I had a lot of respect for him raising Tiger Lily as his own.

Hide the post/s if you go to the corner next to his status there will be an option to hide it. Job done, no unfriending, he won't know and you don't have to see it.

It doesn't matter what or who he is being an arse about, the range of options for dealing with it is the same.

fackinell
She appeared to be a very fun loving person and a good interviewer from what I can remember

Agree. I'm too young to remember The Tube (yes really!) but I remember watching her on the Big Breakfast as a teenager and LOVING that she was so different to all the identikit presenters who were either "yoof tv" or Selina Scott clones. I loved her style and her wit and intelligence and she made a massive impression on me.

The "waste" is just staggering.

YY I loved her quirky sense of style too. She was pretty sassy as an interviewer. A tragic waste, I bloody hate drugs with a passion. Luckily I stopped at trying a couple of puffs on a joint but it can go so horribly wrong for some. Nobody is immune.

I would go for the passive aggressive approach. Post pictures of her on your feed with 'RIP Peaches, so tragic '

LOL Gatorade

Oh yes!! Please do that