Reply #6: I'm one of those DU'ers who is very reluctant [View All]

[RamboLiberal]

to bring personal tragedies to an online forum. And I'm not dumping on those who do, but I just don't feel comfortable to put a lot of personal info or put my own tragedies on an online forum to people I only know by screen names.

I think one of the points on this story is that her Twitter went out to over 5000+ people who follow her Twitters. I think it would have been a different case if it went out to only those she is personally friends with.

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Peter Post, great-grandson of etiquette expert Emily Post and director of the Vermont-based Emily Post Institute, agreed. He called McGraw’s comment “horrendous in its implications.”

“I’m not sure this is the appropriate time or place to be chastising anyone,” he said.

Post said that Ross asking her Twitter followers to pray was akin to asking a congregation to pray.

The problem with modern communication mechanisms such as Twitter, he said, is that they are so fast and easy. “We put things out there and wish we hadn’t,” Post said. “It’s not just your friends who see it: It’s the whole world, potentially.”

For now, the Ross family simply wants to be left alone to grieve.

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091217/NEWS01/91217002/1086/After+boy+drowns++mom+s+reaction+scorned++defended+on+Twitter