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Allen Stern
i guess its time to close ff and twattah - everyone saying the same thing - sure seems like thats what social media is today - one person says it and eveyrone repeats the same thing... he's dead... let's move on - what about the other 3963056350 people who died today? the teacher who helped students, the fireman who died inside a building, the...
June 25, 2009
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William, DC Crowley, Thierry R. Andriamirado and 22 other people liked this
Do you think mainstream media will be any better? You are going to see 4 hours of tributes tonight on every major network.
- Rob Diana
Michael Jackson did quite a bit of good for society as well - he used his music to try and help others
- Jesse Stay
I grew up with MJ, don't know much about that fireman or that teacher, such things are not always that senseless...
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
This is also the same stuff everyone would be chatting about around the water cooler, with family, and it would be all over the news for days. I don't see Twitter being any different from that.
- Jesse Stay
All I can say is... "Wow."
- Jason Hansen
To echo the other comments... seriously... it's SOCIAL media and MJ impacted BILLIONS of people around the world without a doubt. Even if some of the parts of his life took a turn for the worst his music made humanity happy and made people get together and move as one. Death is a sad thing and the people who knew about the fireman or the school teacher would probably talk about them but the global society knew who MJ was so the society needs to talk about him for a while.
- Bryan Zirkel
its fine to talk about how mj impacted you, songs you liked, whatever - but to retweet 100x that he is gone is too much
- Allen Stern
One more reason Twitter needs a "like" button
- Jesse Stay
It's only been an hour or so. He is a legendary music icon. Of course this is the reaction of social media. Don't be a door knob.
- Steve Wilson
Allen - why not write at length about one of the other 3963056350 people who died today instead of complaining about other people writing about one they cared about?
- Andy Connell
Because I don't have any connection to the 3963056350 people that died today. I have distinct memories of playing Thriller in my Sony Walkman and trying to Moonwalk.
- Hutch Carpenter
Wait a minute. Over half the world's population died today? I think that's bigger news than MJs passing. ;-)
- Chris Heath
I hear you Allen. It's annoying. Same goes for blogging. It isn't really fair that some of the folks that died this week get so much attention vs. people that also did less famous but equally (or more) noble things. Still, we didn't start the fire with social media - people have been obsessed with celebs for some time now.
- Brian Wallace