Too Much Tweeting? Mum Tweeting Son's Death Causes Uproar

Well said. It is indeed the individual's emotion at work, and not some sort of exhibitionism at play in this case.

BTW, welcome back!

:D Thanks, Aaman. It is good to be back! Missed the old joint!

And yeah, imagine saying "Thou shalt use twitter for this and FB for that but NOT for the other". pish posh!

I couldnt agree more with your views. Twitter et al have replaced the old cell, let alone landline! And I think its become an unusual space to make "real" connections with "virtual" people.

You may want to check the url; it's about the loos of one of my Twitter friends.

JS

@JS

I wouldn't exactly say REPLACED but social media IS there to connect with tons of people in real time so what is wrong in harnessing its power to spread the word? Aren't we doing every min in cyberspace anyway?

yes and no. some people abuse social media in the form of exhibitionism that they would not normally engage in. there actually is a difference between picking up a cell phone, which is a private act, and twitter, which is a public act. we can assume that this woman had not restricted her tweets to friends only, as other people had seen it and then reacted...

I cannot condemn her for anything, because I do not know her and I do not know the circumstances. I do not think any of us know if it was exhibitionism or not. But as a mother, I find it odd. If any of my friends has twittered the death of her child in that way, I think I might find it disturbing.

if someone is tweeting or posting on facebook, most of the time unless one has defined the boundaries, it is no longer personal, it is public and the online world has full rights to post their views: good, bad or ugly.

in this case DG argues that the telephone has replaced twitter and that's fine if the individual, i.e. ross is OK with it. i am no one to comment on that but still i agree with the comment that smallsquirrel has posted in #5. even i would find it a bit disturbing if someone posts the demise of a close one on twitter. i am fine picking up the phone and talking to the person on the other end.

@SS & Tanay

Yes of course, a phone is a private thing. BUT - this is my view of course - if the lady has a massive support system online, isn't tweeting about it the best way to let them know? I know I depend a lot on my group of mates with whom I send mails / gab on fb with etc. When my son was ill, I messaged them and asked them for tips / prayers etc. So this is just an extension of it, no?

Going by this logic, publishing an obit ad in the newspaper amounts to exhibitionism as well..

ledz, be serious... there is not all the emotionally-laden wording in obits, just the facts. not the same thing.

DG... I am not saying it is wrong, and god knows I FBed the living hell out of my husband's recent travel woes. I am just saying, well, some things (to me) are sacred, and I would never do it. Would it be OK for someone else? Yeah, sure it might be. I could only judge on a case by case basis.

@SS

Of course I get where you are coming from and yes, had I seen it in my twitter followers' feeds, I would probably be taken aback too. But at the same time, I cannot judge her harshly for that, you know. She is going through some tough shit and who's to say how to react in such a time.

I reserve judgement on this matter. Maybe this was her cry for help and comfort. RIP for her baby and I hope the grief gets easier to bear.