Messages of love and grief posted on victim's Facebook profile

FROM Sydney Morning Herald:

Messages of love and grief posted on victim's Facebook profile
Caroline Marcus
May 4, 2008

THEIR faces live on in Facebook and other online networking sites, reminders of the terrible human toll of Thursday's harbour tragedy.

It has emerged that survivor Michael Tsimnadis was a close friend of Alex Nikakis, 30, and helped Nikakis, known to his friends as Pondy, celebrate his brother Julian's bachelor party at the races in March.

Photographs on Mr Nikakis's social networking profile show the pair enjoying a sunny day at the races to celebrate his brother's upcoming nuptials.

"It's going to take me a while to figure out that I can't just pick up the phone; I miss you and hope that you're in a better place," friend Rebecca Jones wrote on the profile. "Thanks for always being there and always being you. You'll always be remembered. RIP."

Tommy Watson wrote: "Go well Pondy ... Look after Stace. Balmain won't be the same without you two."

Another friend, Adam Michael Hynes, wrote: "You will be loved forever in our hearts and always remembered in our minds. What else can one say at a time like this ... I'll miss ya heaps."