Social Network Provides Outlet for Thoughts, Memories of Lauren Astley
Facebook pages have sprung up as places where friends and strangers alike can remember the Wayland High School grad.
As friends and family and even total strangers struggle to process the events in Wayland during the past few days, Facebook has become an arena in which people can connect and cope. At least three Facebook pages are now dedicated to messages and memories of Lauren Astley, the 18-year-old woman found murdered Monday in Wayland. The first, “Have You Seen Lauren Astley,” was created at 1:57 a.m. Monday, just hours after Astley was reported missing and still more than five hours before her body was discovered. It wasn’t until 6 p.m., Monday that the posts on that page changed from a hopeful effort to find a missing young woman to a de facto memorial page as news reports began to circulate that a body found in a marshy area of Wayland had been …
