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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on December 17, 2009, 04:13:07 PM
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MERRITT ISLAND — A child’s jumbled train tracks and a toppled plastic dinosaur lie on the floor by the Ross family’s Christmas tree, left behind by 2-year-old Bryson before he drowned in the family’s swimming pool Monday evening.
But it’s what has been happening on the Internet that has people talking about the tragedy and what is acceptable in today’s world of instant communication and tell-all messaging.
Bryson’s mother, Shellie Ross, posted on Twitter.com about his accident a half-hour after she called paramedics — and then was attacked by strangers nationwide in follow-up tweets and blogs for doing so.
Social media experts said Ross did nothing wrong. Her friends call the 37-year-old a caring, devoted mom.
Ross is aware of the controversy, but she declined Wednesday to be interviewed by FLORIDA TODAY, steering requests instead to friends who are monitoring the Web discussions. Those same friends advised her to stop reading the responses to her online postings. However, she was back on Twitter on Wednesday, thanking the Air Force for their “amazing†support and castigating two Twitter critics.
More Here (http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091217/NEWS01/91217002/1006/rss01)
Sad story. Are people that addicted to tweeting? Yes, I spend an inordinate amount of time online but there is only myself, wife and dog to pay attention to. I hope the family finds some measure of peace.
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It takes seconds to tweet something. Its stupid a et al but it is not to blame for this.
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It takes seconds to tweet something. Its stupid a et al but it is not to blame for this.
I'm not too sure of that. This woman apparently tweeted every minute of her day. That doesn't bother me so much, but the fact that she tweeted about her son drowning within literally minutes, 34 minutes to be exact. That is just :censored: up.
According to 9-1-1 records, a phone call from Ross came in at 5:38 p.m. that she had found her son at the bottom of their screened-in swimming pool.
She posted a tweet at 6:12 p.m.: “Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool.â€
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I don't see anything wrong with the tweet itself, but maybe she should have paid some more attention to WTF was going down IRL instead of burying her face in a stupid toy all day.
News flash, nobody really gives a **** what you do every time you change direction during the day. Grow up.
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Very sad about the baby but the mom needs to get a grip on life