It has most assuredly gone too far. Case in point, I was in a rest room at work a few weeks ago and A guy runs into a the stall with his blackberry and his lunch. He is on the blackberry phone talking to someone loudly and eating his lunch:a plastic container of Chinese food. All the while taking a hearty sloppy smelly DUMP complete with splatter noises. He puts the chinese food on the floor! and Then is talking about checking his iphone. I am not making this up. You know the person on the other end could hear this. How "connected" do you have to be? People have an overyl heightened sense of themselves where the mundane is emergency news. Enough already...

Wade - AOL SAYS Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry - what in the hell does cap and trade have to do with a woman having a miscarriage?

That's why they call the individual twitter messages tweets because they realize they are really twits!

um, these are all PUBLISHING platforms folks. don't put anything online you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the NYT

ya..the Beef Curtain! lol

My friend calls it twatter and the people who use it twatters. After this I couldn't agree more.

Well, I don`t know why anyone is really at all surprised at this???????? With all of the reality shows on TV networks and all the Twitter, MySpace and Face Book antics etc.... What else would you expect from people who put there lives on display for everyone to see on Video or read in Print. I am not surprised at all. Everyone out there is hook on all of this new technology or should I say ADDICTED to it. Its a real shame too. The human race now relies on computer technology for everything...... its no wonder half of the children growing up today are some what brain dead. We all rely on this technology because we think it makes our lives easier.... nonsense...So don`t be surprised if you read even worse things on these social networks. GOD Help us All.

I think Twitter is clear evidence that the internet was a better place when you were required to have at least *some* intelligence in order to be afforded the luxury of voicing your opinions to the world at large.

This is the funniest thing I ever heard...to hell with u Melinda go cry elsewhere

No one is dragging us behind any curtain, we have the ability to avoid stories or tweets like this one. We must remember that everyone grieves differently, she could be experiencing pain and sorrow internally. The real problem is that people are interested in stories like this one. And it's because of that interest that media outlets run with them.

Alex, you are so right. We are our own worst enemy. This woman has absolutely no class. How disgusting!

technology outpaced our ability to wisely use it just about two minutes after we learned to use fire. Everything is equally horrible, and equally essential. That fire heats peoples, and it cooks foot. However, the fire also burns down houses, and helps brandish swords and bullets...
Now are those bullets and swords bad??? Yes and No.... Equally...We need to protect our selves, but some people just offend others with weapons.....Remeber now we're only Two steps away from FIRE, metal to weapon... Now fire helps make pills by cooking chemicals at certain temps and so fourth, but it also cooks concoctions which could burn through the concrete on your driveway...
Whether that looks like a dumb way to look at it, so widely. We must remember that all things occur at once, and none of them can be overlooked. None of the bad can be over looked, and none of the good. We musn't call anything good or bad. Unfortunately, in this body we'll never know.

I disagree. Science has simply outpaced the educational standards. But in any case, using technology as an advantage should never be shunned - human progress advances when its known limits are tested.

On another note, I'm glad this woman isn't having kids :)

It's not the words but the tone that's the most offensive to me. I consider myself very liberal and pro-choice but I'd never take such a thing so flippant and casual. Abortion and miscarriages are serious, both medically and emotionally, and to treat it as something so flippant is terribly immature, irresponsible, as well as terribly callous towards women who do suffer miscarriages and find it to be a very traumatizing and truly sad event. If this woman has so little respect for others as well as motherhood, maybe she should get her tubes tied. Miscarriage is a fact of life, but it's not a fun one, and attempting to be "edgy" isn't going to make it any less painful and sometimes medically dangerous as it is.

Technology is outpacing our wisdom by far (and I'm 25 saying this).. just because you can doesn't mean you should.


And it does hurt abortion rights.

Very well said!

I agree, but, we as individuals still have the power of choice. We can choose what we read, or what we allow people to tell us. If something offends me, I simply choose not to be a part of it anymore. I also think it's wrong that people judge her as being cold and heartless for discussing this the way she did. To assume that most women wouldn't feel this way, even twenty or thirty years ago, well, you know what it does. Women just didn't voice things back then, but that doesn't mean that some didn't feel the same way. We pick and choose what we tell people, and they pick and choose what they hear. Should we choose our words wisely? Sure, but then, who decides what is wise and what is not? One man's comic book is another man's novel. And just for the record, I choose not to tweet.

Was she actually having a miscarriage? It seems like this whole event was planned for publicity for her web site.