I expect people to tweet about tennis matches, bar mitzvahs, breaking news and everything in between, but even in such a liberal social world, someone has to draw a line that extends farther than 140 characters.
A woman who tweets her abortion is insulting to life itself. It's like a murderer tweeting about his plan to kill Joe Shmoe. I'm all for empowering women--trust me. But publicizing an abortion is making it an ordinary thing, and an abortion is beyond ordinary. It is an intimate moment between a woman, her body and her never-to-be-born child.
I certainly have developed a new love for Twitter (love in the non-mushy-gushy way, but because I've discovered its unique abilities that enable the spontaneous gathering of news), but like in anything new, there is always that doubt and that question concerning ethics.
This doesn't just involve Twitter, this extends to all social media. Like uploading scandalous pictures on Facebook or posting questionable comments on MySpace, Twitter will encounter its brow-raising situations.
Obviously, "to each his own." I do my thing, you do your thing, but like in real life, what you do can get in the way of what I do. In this case, though I'm not directly affected, it really does bother me that real-life ethics/rules do not translate into our virtual world. This may just be a network, this may just be a screen we look into for hours and hours every day, but this is still life. It is humans that drive these virtual relationships, not the other way around.
What we do online counts as much as what we do offline.
I did not intend to blog about this..I was actually going to blog about my group's idea for next week's assignment, but as always, I checked out a news Web site and there it was.
I just want to clarify--I don't judge people for getting abortions. I judge people who don't treat it as a serious matter.
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