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I agree, and if I ever witness a tragedy first hand, I hope my first thoughts won't be to post a pic on Twitter.

ryanwaggoner 18y ago
What will your first thought be? This guy was a passenger on the ferry that was heading towards the plane to help, so what was he supposed to do, jump into the river and try to get there faster? Fashion a makeshift paddle and help propel the ferry? Seems like posting a picture of the plane to twitter is a reasonable response when you're standing around watching rescue crews do their job.
- jfornear 18y ago
  I don't know if there is anything wrong with merely taking a picture, but posting it online right away when you aren't exactly sure what happened yet isn't sensitive to the families of the potential victims involved. When I turned on the news earlier, a cameraman was chasing a lady on a stretcher even though she was covering her face, obviously to avoid being shown... During 9/11, the news showed people jumping out of the towers... Just because we have the technology and response time to bring these moments to our living rooms in real-time doesn't mean it's appropriate... you know? EDIT: How many tragedies does the tech industry need to get over the fact that we have cell phone cameras with web applications that let us converse about them in real-time? Do you really think these tech journalists care about the victims involved? http://techblips.dailyradar.com/story/real_time_terrorism_captured_on_twitter_mumbai_attacks/ http://techblips.dailyradar.com/story/real_time_terrorism_ca... http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/mumbai-attacks-live-on-twitter-flickr/2008/11/27/1227491713487.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/mumbai-attacks-... http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/28/mumbai-twitter-sms-tech-internet-cx_bc_kn_1128mumbai.html http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/28/mumbai-twitter-sms-tech-int... I'm not going to mention names, but when I see some of these tech journalists get all riled up about the real-time web every time a tragedy occurs it makes me sick.
  - ryanwaggoner 18y ago
    Disagree. Are there instances in which journalists and tech are too intrusive into private matters? Absolutely. Is one of them taking a cell phone picture from the deck of a ferry while media helicopters swarm around the scene? No way. Please explain how this picture is insensitive to the family members. Are you seriously arguing that in the face of a tragedy, no information is preferable to those worried about their family members? The Mumbai attacks are an even better example: if I had a family member in Mumbai during the attacks, I'd want every single piece of info and data I could get my hands on, rather than having to wait forever for the "official" reports.
    - jfornear 18y ago
      You're right. I just get a bad feeling when the random Twitter user starts giving interviews and becomes the hero, and when every tragedy inevitably turns into a discussion about Twitter and the real-time web.

What will your first thought be? This guy was a passenger on the ferry that was heading towards the plane to help, so what was he supposed to do, jump into the river and try to get there faster? Fashion a makeshift paddle and help propel the ferry? Seems like posting a picture of the plane to twitter is a reasonable response when you're standing around watching rescue crews do their job.

jfornear 18y ago
I don't know if there is anything wrong with merely taking a picture, but posting it online right away when you aren't exactly sure what happened yet isn't sensitive to the families of the potential victims involved. When I turned on the news earlier, a cameraman was chasing a lady on a stretcher even though she was covering her face, obviously to avoid being shown... During 9/11, the news showed people jumping out of the towers... Just because we have the technology and response time to bring these moments to our living rooms in real-time doesn't mean it's appropriate... you know? EDIT: How many tragedies does the tech industry need to get over the fact that we have cell phone cameras with web applications that let us converse about them in real-time? Do you really think these tech journalists care about the victims involved? http://techblips.dailyradar.com/story/real_time_terrorism_captured_on_twitter_mumbai_attacks/ http://techblips.dailyradar.com/story/real_time_terrorism_ca... http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/mumbai-attacks-live-on-twitter-flickr/2008/11/27/1227491713487.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/mumbai-attacks-... http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/28/mumbai-twitter-sms-tech-internet-cx_bc_kn_1128mumbai.html http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/28/mumbai-twitter-sms-tech-int... I'm not going to mention names, but when I see some of these tech journalists get all riled up about the real-time web every time a tragedy occurs it makes me sick.
- ryanwaggoner 18y ago
  Disagree. Are there instances in which journalists and tech are too intrusive into private matters? Absolutely. Is one of them taking a cell phone picture from the deck of a ferry while media helicopters swarm around the scene? No way. Please explain how this picture is insensitive to the family members. Are you seriously arguing that in the face of a tragedy, no information is preferable to those worried about their family members? The Mumbai attacks are an even better example: if I had a family member in Mumbai during the attacks, I'd want every single piece of info and data I could get my hands on, rather than having to wait forever for the "official" reports.
  - jfornear 18y ago
    You're right. I just get a bad feeling when the random Twitter user starts giving interviews and becomes the hero, and when every tragedy inevitably turns into a discussion about Twitter and the real-time web.