Comments on: Through Facebook, family first learned of their 17-year-old daughter's death http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html#comment-1595613 NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197081#comment-1595613 Alone Together... we are. Sherry Turkle's book of that same name is worth a read... Alone Together… we are.

Sherry Turkle’s book of that same name is worth a read…

]]> By: DisGuest http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html#comment-1594676 DisGuest Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197081#comment-1594676 I wasn't faulting anyone. I was responding to a joke in a comment about how it was unsurprising that someone might find out this way (online) versus the 1920's (reading: old days) when you'd find out via a phone call, and my point was that I'd still rather find out the old way. Where you came to the conclusion that I was blaming anyone, I don't know. I just mentioned that reading this type of info online was cold. Looking back: * I should have edited my first comment to read more in the vein of how I intended it. I wasn’t faulting anyone. I was responding to a joke in a comment about how it was unsurprising that someone might find out this way (online) versus the 1920′s (reading: old days) when you’d find out via a phone call, and my point was that I’d still rather find out the old way. Where you came to the conclusion that I was blaming anyone, I don’t know. I just mentioned that reading this type of info online was cold.
Looking back:
* I should have edited my first comment to read more in the vein of how I intended it.

]]> By: Peaked http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html#comment-1594646 Peaked Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197081#comment-1594646 It wasn't 100% clear from the articles about this that I've seen that the university did anything wrong. While a phone call would be much preferable, it may simply have been the case that social media moves quicker than the university's public safety and thus they found out from her friend's Facebook post first. Now, I've not seen anything absolving the university either. It's possible they were dragging their feet, but it's entirely plausible that this situation, while unfortunate, is forgivable. It wasn't as if the university just posted an announcement to Facebook themselves and decided that was sufficient. It wasn’t 100% clear from the articles about this that I’ve seen that the university did anything wrong. While a phone call would be much preferable, it may simply have been the case that social media moves quicker than the university’s public safety and thus they found out from her friend’s Facebook post first. Now, I’ve not seen anything absolving the university either. It’s possible they were dragging their feet, but it’s entirely plausible that this situation, while unfortunate, is forgivable. It wasn’t as if the university just posted an announcement to Facebook themselves and decided that was sufficient.

]]> By: DisGuest http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html#comment-1594523 DisGuest Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197081#comment-1594523 I'd rather be informed about the death of a loved one via the old telephone contraption instead of reading about it online. It's just cold to post a comment about it. I’d rather be informed about the death of a loved one via the old telephone contraption instead of reading about it online. It’s just cold to post a comment about it.

]]> By: Boundegar http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html#comment-1594433 Boundegar Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197081#comment-1594433 So Facebook is becoming a communication medium.  Perhaps there were shocking stories in the 1920s of people learning terrible things via telephone-contraption? So Facebook is becoming a communication medium.  Perhaps there were shocking stories in the 1920s of people learning terrible things via telephone-contraption?

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html#comment-1594332 EH Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197081#comment-1594332 Ah yes, suddenly the elevator cams aren't on backorder anymore. Ah yes, suddenly the elevator cams aren’t on backorder anymore.

]]> By: Mister44 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/28/family-learns-of-17yo-daughter.html#comment-1594276 Mister44 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197081#comment-1594276 Weird - I learned about my great uncles death via Facebook a few weeks ago before anywhere else. Weird – I learned about my great uncles death via Facebook a few weeks ago before anywhere else.

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