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"Remembering my million dollar baby"

post #1 of 14
12/19/09 at 7:26pm
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Huh.

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Two-year-old Bryson Ross drowned on Monday in the swimming pool of the home his family had just moved into in Merritt Island, Fla.

Shellie Ross, Bryson’s mother, is a popular blogger, who chronicles her life as a mother of four, and the wife of an Air Force sergeant, and whose Twitter account, @Military_Mom, has more than 5,400 followers.

She tweeted those followers at 5:22 p.m. Monday, with a breezy update about the fog rolling in and spooking the chickens as she worked in her chicken coop. Sixteen minutes later, a 911 call was placed from her home saying that Bryson was lying at the bottom of the pool. At 6:12 p.m. she tweeted again: “Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool.” And five hours later, she wrote that she was “remembering my million dollar baby,” posting photos of the little boy. (Some of these tweets and photos have since been removed.)
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Addiction to social media gone awry or feigned-outrage issue of the day?
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post #2 of 14
12/19/09 at 8:20pm
Feigned outrage. When something horrible happens you reach out to anyone and everyone. This is just another case of the evolution of the internet as a tool for social interaction.

EDIT: The only argument I could get behind is the timing of the event versus her first post. If she was posting while he was falling in, then you could make some sort of "obsession" case where the internet as a distraction caused his death. But the rest, she could have tweeted for prayers while on the way to the hospital, or while being stuck in the waiting room, and I have no problem with that.
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post #3 of 14
12/19/09 at 8:50pm
I don't know the horror of losing a child. If Anakin's Dad has no issue with what this mother did, then who the fuck am I to judge?
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post #4 of 14
12/19/09 at 9:01pm
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Originally Posted by Anakin's Dad View Post
The only argument I could get behind is the timing of the event versus her first post. If she was posting while he was falling in, then you could make some sort of "obsession" case where the internet as a distraction caused his death. But the rest, she could have tweeted for prayers while on the way to the hospital, or while being stuck in the waiting room, and I have no problem with that.

Right. It isn't as if she was on Facebook posting "ZOMG! Timmy fell into the pool!"
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post #5 of 14
12/19/09 at 9:07pm
shit my baby just fell in the pool
brb
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post #6 of 14
12/19/09 at 11:19pm
Goddamn you for making me laugh at that, Macca.
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post #7 of 14
12/20/09 at 12:04am
I almost hate to even mention this, but this almost sounds like a Balloon Boy-type hoax to me. It just doesn't feel . . . right.
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post #8 of 14
12/20/09 at 4:13am
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@Military_Mom, has more than 5,400 followers.
wtf this
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post #9 of 14
12/20/09 at 5:11am
why would people get upset about this, exactly? She didn't tweet before calling 911
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post #10 of 14
12/20/09 at 8:31am
Like it or not stuff like that are now part of the normal social interactions. Tweeting about something that happened to you, especially something this big isn't any worse than calling your friends on the phone and telling them.

Even though I'm a pretty private person there have been times when bad stuff happened to me and I thought of posting it on CHUD so that people would make fun of it and make me feel better. I didn't, because I didn't want to waste anyone's time but I see why you would do that.
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post #11 of 14
12/20/09 at 9:39pm
I guess you shouldn't phone anyone after someone you know dies, either. It's in a bad taste!
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post #12 of 14
12/21/09 at 10:31am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Like it or not stuff like that are now part of the normal social interactions. Tweeting about something that happened to you, especially something this big isn't any worse than calling your friends on the phone and telling them.

Even though I'm a pretty private person there have been times when bad stuff happened to me and I thought of posting it on CHUD so that people would make fun of it and make me feel better. I didn't, because I didn't want to waste anyone's time but I see why you would do that.
I think the outrgae isn't so much that she did it, but that she did it so soon after it occurred. You'd expect a mom who had just lost a child to be too grief stricken to be thinking straight enough to put a tweet together. It just strikes some of us as od that this was seemingly among the 1st things she thought of doing in the aftermath.
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post #13 of 14
12/21/09 at 10:39am
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg View Post
I think the outrgae isn't so much that she did it, but that she did it so soon after it occurred. You'd expect a mom who had just lost a child to be too grief stricken to be thinking straight enough to put a tweet together. It just strikes some of us as od that this was seemingly among the 1st things she thought of doing in the aftermath.
Some people bury themselves in their work immediately following tragedy. If the majority of her day was normally spent tweeting/blogging/etc., then it makes sense that she may have retreated to that world as a coping mechanism.
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post #14 of 14
12/21/09 at 12:27pm
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Originally Posted by Sean Blackwell View Post
Some people bury themselves in their work immediately following tragedy. If the majority of her day was normally spent tweeting/blogging/etc., then it makes sense that she may have retreated to that world as a coping mechanism.
Yup. It's like the stillborn baby Facebook group - I've never been there so I'm not going to play like I know how people should grieve.
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