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Death Tweets?

Good on her. It probably kept her a little less frantic than the Mom who would otherwise be getting in the paramedics way and screaming and ranting. Perhaps twitter made the work of those paramedics a little less stressful for a few seconds. Who knows...

Well ****, its not like the only options are either twitter or get in the way. If my kid is dying you are damn right I am frantic. But I am not logging onto Debate Politics to de-stress about the revival efforts as they are happening.
 
Well ****, its not like the only options are either twitter or get in the way. If my kid is dying you are damn right I am frantic. But I am not logging onto Debate Politics to de-stress about the revival efforts as they are happening.

I think it smacks of needing attention a little too much, and from the wrong place.
 
Well ****, its not like the only options are either twitter or get in the way. If my kid is dying you are damn right I am frantic. But I am not logging onto Debate Politics to de-stress about the revival efforts as they are happening.

According to the article she wasn't doing that either.
 
I don't know. My kid is trying to be revived by paramedics, getting on the internets is the last thing on my mind. Maaaaaaybe I would text someone...:2razz:

A lot of people use twitter from their phones. You send the tweet as a text message.
 
A lot of people use twitter from their phones. You send the tweet as a text message.

You are talking to a 30 year old who may as well as be 65 years old with technology. I see commericals for phones that talk about apps, and I don't even know what that means. I may get myself a jitterbug cell phone.
 
You are talking to a 30 year old who may as well as be 65 years old with technology. I see commericals for phones that talk about apps, and I don't even know what that means. I may get myself a jitterbug cell phone.

Heh. I'm on the other end, I do web 2.0 stuff for a living, including maintaining two promotional twitters.
 
Mom who tweets son's drowning faces backlash


Ms. Ross and her two sons had been cleaning out the Merrit Island, Fla., family's chicken coop when she instructed the two boys to turn off the hose inside the house, said Lt. Bruce Barnett of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. When the elder son returned without Bryson, Ms. Ross searched for the boy around the house before finding him face-down in the family's pool.

She administered CPR as her other son dialed 911.

That was at 5:22 p.m., Florida time. ABC News reported the 911 call was made at 5:23 p.m. and that paramedics arrived at 5:38 p.m. Ms. Ross's first tweet about the mishap was at 6:14, which Barnett said was made from a hospital waiting room as the family held out hope for Bryson. The second at 8:08 p.m.,

What followed the second Tweet on other websites and on Ms. Ross's 5,400-member feed, at Military-Mom, was a string of messages -- some supportive, but also others that criticized her for tweeting about her son's death.

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The backlash shows the double-edged nature of depending on online ‘friends' for solace, says Dan Liechty, of Illinois State University.

Mr. Liechty, of ISU's social work department, said Ms. Ross did what any parent would do -- she sought support from what she felt was her "community," the same as a generation ago, parents would have been on the phone, getting friends -- even strangers -- to pray for them.

"That's totally appropriate then. I mean what else is she going to do? The medics are there, she's feeling she needs the support of her community --and that's her community," he said.

What is so outrageous?
 
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What is so outrageous?

"My son is dying. LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"

Speaking only for myself, DP is going to be pretty far down my list of "things to do in the hospital waiting room while waiting to hear if my son is dead."
 
"My son is dying. LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"

Speaking only for myself, DP is going to be pretty far down my list of "things to do in the hospital waiting room while waiting to hear if my son is dead."

She asked for prayers. That's all.
 
"My son is dying. LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"

Speaking only for myself, DP is going to be pretty far down my list of "things to do in the hospital waiting room while waiting to hear if my son is dead."

Was she tweeting from a phone or a computer? If a computer was it a laptop or a desktop?
 
Thank you for the updated time line. Earlier articles suggested that she tweeted first, then called 911.

Given in this order, I say that no, this is not outrageous at all.

She tweeted about the fog in the area just before the accident was discovered. After the accident was discovered, she was trying to save her child.

Anyone who has ever dealt with somehting like this knows that once the person is in the doctors hands, you are sitting in a room losing your ****ing mind. At that point, some people ask for prayers... as this woman did.
 
Yes. If it's a phone in her hand or her nearby laptop, then it's different than if she ran inside to her stationary desktop computer to tweet.

Oh, I agree, sort of. I can't imagine grabbing my laptop before heading off to the hospital. Really, I can't imagine having the presence of mind to jump online while my son is potentially dead. I'd be completely incapable of putting words into sentences, to be blunt.
 
Oh, I agree, sort of. I can't imagine grabbing my laptop before heading off to the hospital. Really, I can't imagine having the presence of mind to jump online while my son is potentially dead. I'd be completely incapable of putting words into sentences, to be blunt.

Would you call somoene to ask for prayers, or do you know anyone who might do that?
 
Would you call somoene to ask for prayers, or do you know anyone who might do that?

It's unlikely that I'd call for prayers, but I would call family members to let them know. It's unlikely that I'd contact people I knew only superficially. I am not even sure I would contact my office unless I knew I was going to miss work.
 
It's unlikely that I'd call for prayers, but I would call family members to let them know. It's unlikely that I'd contact people I knew only superficially. I am not even sure I would contact my office unless I knew I was going to miss work.

Do you know anyone who might call for prayers?
 
Yes. My parents probably would. But, they have significant, meaningful face-to-face relationships with their church congregation, versus an "audience."

How do you know how meaningful her internet relationships are? Seems to me only she can determine how meaningful she finds them.
 
Yes. My parents probably would. But, they have significant, meaningful face-to-face relationships with their church congregation, versus an "audience."

The woman in question has protected her tweets now, so, I can't look to see how she used it. However, many people use twitter interactively, almost like a chat room. I'm not sure how familiar you are with twitter, but if you put "@" in front of someone's name, they can see that you have mentioned them. Many uses use this function in order to hold conversations. So, not quite a passive audience.
 
Heh. I'm on the other end, I do web 2.0 stuff for a living, including maintaining two promotional twitters.

Then I find your username offensive and misleading:2razz:
 
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