Was @military_mom right to tweet about her son drowning?

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Posted on December 17, 2009 | tags

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Please pray like never before. my 2 yr old fell in the pool.
Blogger @military_mom (a.k.a. Shellie Ross) • Regarding the drowning of her son. Many are up in arms about the fact that she tweeted about the incident half an hour after it happened. He died a few hours later. Our feeling? Twitter is just a communication mechanism like any other. It’s as easy to use as texting or phone calls, or any other mechanism you use. Twitter isn’t a faddish thing – Twitter is a communication mechanism. People can and will use it for this. Are we wrong? Let us know. (Either way, and let us be clear – this is a sad story and that doesn’t take away from that one bit. We actually find the New York Post story that brought up the issue to be quite disrespectful.) source

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Mika

I was really concerned about the comments on the New York Times article. They seemed to say she deliberately ignored her son and so he drowned and then when she found him she tweeted about it. In the article it even said she called 911 and tweeted 30 minutes after the paramedics. If you were concerned about your kid and you were religious wouldn’t you want a bunch of your friends and family to pray for your child’s survival?
Mika

I was really concerned about the comments on the New York Times article. They seemed to say she deliberately ignored her son and so he drowned and then when she found him she tweeted about it. In the article it even said she called 911 and tweeted 30 minutes after the paramedics. If you were concerned about your kid and you were religious wouldn’t you want a bunch of your friends and family to pray for your child’s survival?