Facebook and Bad News

I've been thinking lately about facebook and death. It seems to me that while facebook works well for happy news--new relationships, engagement, marriage, babies--it just doesn't work to well for sad news--no one wants to announce a breakup on facebook, and while people do seem to grieve together over death on facebook, it seems to me to be a particularly ill-suited medium for that. Bad news isn't the sort of news that you want to stumble across--I want to be told bad news directly and to be able to comfort my friends if I can. On facebook, you just trip over it, mixed in thoroughly with silly trivialities.