Tweeting Mom Controversy: Shaun Hautly

Good Lord, America. We have better things to do during the christmas season than criticize a woman who just lost her son. In a time when we've got health-care being voted on, troops in Iraq, a crazy recession, and it's the Holidays! Can't we find a few other things to do than search twitter for sticky situations? This is not a problem, this whole thing, for two reasons:

She did not exploit the event. Or maybe she did. She didn't make any money off of it. No one makes money off twitter. Directly. Let's say this event got her 1,000 new followers. Now what? I've been blogging for years. I've blogged about all sorts of personal things. But they're just blogs. All of this. Blogs. Now, if she had taken pictures of the accident, and tried to sell them to journalists, that'd be bad, but this was just a few sentences on a free site.

Secondly, she was upset. She just lost her son. When you're in a situation like that, your brain doesn't work like normal, you go into shock and do weird things. Especially when you're a regular blogger, when you blog about everything in your life, it becomes part of your expression. It was reflex to tweet, and when her brain wasn't thinking logically, it just tweeted. And now she's being attacked for it? Boo. I will only listen to attacks on this woman from other avid blogging women who have lost a son. 

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