Facebook reactions to shootings
CollegiateTimes.com, the news website at Virginia Tech, has a selection of some of the postings on the social networking site 'Facebook' that have appeared since yesterday's shootings.
One group created by Tech Student Tim Hall is called "April 16, 2007 - A Moment of Silence" and has 8,712 members thus far.
"It was like having a good dream and waking up in the middle of a nightmare," Hall said. "Virginia Tech needed unity. By expressing what I felt on Facebook, I knew the entire campus would rally and support the group. We are going through one of those rare times when every student on campus is feeling the same emotion: emptiness. It was my way of bringing the university together and showing my classmates that the entire country supports us. It is truly an amazing way of watching our beautiful country come together to start the healing process."
CollegiateTimes.com lists several other groups on Facebook connected to the shootings. Anyone can read the postings, although it is necessary to register at the site.
The college news site also offers a first-hand account by one of the students who was in one of the classrooms were the gunman opened fired. Erin Sheehan was one of only four people to walk out of her German class after the shooting.
7:43 AM ET | 04-17-2007 | permalink
