This is one FB thing I've seen a few times and it bugs the heck out of me. It is very cruel and kind of elitist to post a vague memorandum type thing and have other folks 'in the know' responding equally vaguely and then someone not 'in the know', very reasonably, wants to know what happened and.....crickets. I guess it goes under that category of vaguebooking....and I hate vaguebooking. I agree with OP. If it's something too delicate to discuss then it shouldn't be brought up in any way shape or form on FB. At all. Not the right place.
When I've seen it, and I am curious what happened, I won't ask. Early in FB, a couple years after we moved from one state to another, a friend from the old state posted one about someone I knew and I was 'that girl' asking everyone what happened. It was even a post like this...'OMG, pray for so and so in her time of such a devastating loss and shocking horrific event'. And...crickets. Not even a private message. So, being quick on the uptake, I learned never to ask on one of those type posts again. But, every time, someone asks and...crickets.
When I've seen it, and I am curious what happened, I won't ask. Early in FB, a couple years after we moved from one state to another, a friend from the old state posted one about someone I knew and I was 'that girl' asking everyone what happened. It was even a post like this...'OMG, pray for so and so in her time of such a devastating loss and shocking horrific event'. And...crickets. Not even a private message. So, being quick on the uptake, I learned never to ask on one of those type posts again. But, every time, someone asks and...crickets.