The reporting is fine; the results of her communication is sad, her loss is sad. All those factor in to the saddest thing of all, CNET, trading in humanity for some ******** page views. You bastards are disgusting. Change the title of this post.
Found a comment down the page that quite expressed what I feel.
The woman's 2-year old kid drowned in between tweets. That's like saying he drowned in between phone calls on a mobile phone. (Actually tweeting takes less attention than a phone conversation.)
Personally, I would not take my eyes off a little kid for a moment, in any potentially hazardous environment. That said, this sounds like one of those senseless, tragic accidents.
People get scared that this kind of thing could happen to them, so they try to fault the mother, in a futile attempt to foist a factor of control onto the random tragedy:
"I'd never do what she did, so this'll never happen to me." So one hopes.
Fact is, according to the mom, the kid just ran off for a couple of seconds. Maybe she's lying, maybe those are just the frightening facts. That death could come at any time, is too much for some.
Those who think she was inside on the computer while the kid was outside next to the pool are n00bs who have no idea how people tweet.
This story is sensational because of the keyword "Twitter". Idiots. Every new thing gets blamed. Blue jeans. Beehive hairdos. Drainpipe jeans. Comics. Television. The World Wide Web.
I remember how the newspapers once reported that a little girl asphyxiated when her neck got caught in some crazy laces she tied around her bedpost. The tone of the story was that crazy laces (those delightfully horrid, fat fluorescent shoelaces of my early teens) were bad. That's like parents who teach their kid to blame the floor when the toddler stumbles and falls. Idiots.
Now I'm going to hug my kid.
