Taya Dunn Johnson has been living large online for years, embracing Facebook, Twitter and other social streams to frequently share her most mundane and intimate moments.
Her husband — her high school sweetheart and an IT specialist — was an offline kind of guy, although he was surrounded by post-happy loved ones, colleagues and friends and had no problem with that.
Then he died of a heart attack at age 37, and his wife found herself entrenched in what just might be the last frontier for privacy — his funeral.
“I held two services and had to ask several people not to take photos of his casket,” said Johnson, a 38-year-old administrative assistant who lives in Baltimore with her 6-year-old son. “The idea of it disturbed me.
“Days later, I noticed several people had ‘checked-in’ from the funeral home on a couple of platforms.”
See Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Family section for more.