A Tweet Before Dying: Why It's Not OK To Live Tweet Your Mom's Death
At what point do we stop glorifying tech companies, their platforms, and our use of them, and start saying, "You know what? That’s messed up. You shouldn’t do that"? Let me give you one example from an organization I actually like, NPR. It involves Weekend Edition host Scott Simon, whom you might have read about, deciding to live tweet the last week of his mother’s life.
At what point do we stop glorifying tech companies, their platforms, and our use of them, and start saying, “You know what? That’s messed up. You shouldn’t do that”? Let me give you one example from an organization I actually like, NPR. It involves Weekend Edition host Scott Simon, whom you might have read about, deciding to live tweet the last week of his mother’s life.
I legitimately feel for Scott, as I saw what my Dad went through when he lost both of his parents in the span of three months between December of 1999 (on Christmas Eve, no less) and March of 2000.
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