Magruder Tragedy Reveals Lives Intertwined Online
Facebook and Twitter offer details of lives cut short and provide a place for friends to mourn.
On Friday, students from Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Rockville signed on to Twitter to make plans for the weekend. It was one of the last weekends of high school for the Class of 2011. Students tweeted with friends about graduation, about television shows, movies and music and about parties. They traded one-liners and gossiped about classmates. Haeley McGuire, an 18-year-old Magruder senior, signed on and retweeted a message from a friend: @gnourtina by HaeleyMcG Count your blessings, not your problems. It was her final digital fingerprint on the online social network. On Sunday, McGuire was one of three young adults killed in an early morning car crash in Olney. The trio left a digital trail of their lives on social networks that …
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7:20 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
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