Community Chat

[FrostyBabe1]

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@qbetzforreal wrote:

These forums are absolutely a form of social media. Social media are computer-mediated technologies that allow the creating and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.  This what QVC has created for its customers.  Up in the left hand corner, it says Community Menu.

These forums are like Facebook and Twitter with less pictures and people get to hide behind nicknames.  But it's the same random thoughts, feelings, happenings with families, friends, slights, losses, illnesses and happy events.

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You're absolutely right! And the same people who overshare every detail of their lives on platforms like Facebook and Twitter will very likely do the same thing here or on other forums. It's the individual, not the platform. At least with Facebook and Twitter we have the opportunity to block/ignore individuals and/or content that we don't care to see. 

[YorkieonmyPillow]

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@Andreatoo wrote:

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

@CarriestpI read that when I saw the photo. Makes no sense to me then and still doesn't, i.e., there are A LOT of things people shouldn't have to go through, but they still happen, how does publishing his dying daughter's photo change any of that?

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@YorkieonmyPillow

Wow..just wow! I read both of your posts and I'd like you to picture this scenario:

You're in excruciating pain and anguish over the loss of the most important person in your life and you cope the way you know how; in your own particular fashion..and imagine some shrew that you've never met, doesn't know you from Adam calls you 'sick, sick, sick' and proceeds to tear you a new one..???

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  In the first place, I didn't "tear him a new one," as I don't know the man and don't expect to ever meet him; so no harm done.

  Second place, when you put things on social media, not everybody is going to approve.

  As for his feelings? Yes they matter, BUT, what matters to me, is his daughter, and HER privacy rights.

  I DO think it is sick to #1 photograph your dying child - (how about calling the nurse for more pain meds, instead of making photographs?) - and then, #2, to publish it.

  It is sick, IMHO.

  I would not want my photograph made while I was dying and I wouldn't want it splattered all over the internet! There is something wrong with anyone who would do that........oh, BTW:  I'm not "some shrew." 

[Elvita]

I know what you mean. My son's grilfriend took pictures of her and her dad, as he lay dying from cancer, and posted them on FB. Creepy!

[YorkieonmyPillow]

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@Elvita wrote:

I know what you mean. My son's grilfriend took pictures of her and her dad, as he lay dying from cancer, and posted them on FB. Creepy!

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Messed-up! Who would be thinking of FB, at a time like that!