Well known blogger Shellie Ross shocked her followers when she took to the social networking site Twitter during a tragedy – the death of her own son. Ross Tweeted the following last Monday at 6:12pm: “Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool.” Reports confirm that a 911 dispatcher received a call from Ross' Florida home at 5:23pm when Ross' older son called to say he found his brother floating in the family's pool. Paramedics arrived on the scene at 5:38pm. About five hours after her son had been pronounced dead, Ross Tweeted again at 11:08pm “"Remembering my million dollar baby," followed shortly with an upload of a photo of her son.
This has sparked a debate as many people feel that Shellie Ross was reaching out for support while others say Tweeting during such an emergency was in poor taste. Some note that Ross sent over 70 tweets the day of her son's death before the accident, and question her ability to monitor her children while she's excessively tweeting.
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