Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
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Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#2So what happened?
Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#3Thats great to hear. A little surprised it took 3 days to find her in a hospital. Hope she is okay.
Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#4So what happened?
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Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#5I don't really want to intrude on her life to ask just what happened---it's not any of my business---but I would like to know if, whatever did happen, the technorati/HN/FB/etc publicity helped find/save/help her.
Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#6I haven't been able to read this status update (it keeps timing out for some reason), so I'm just going off the title here. *
The downside of these hugely public, and permanent, appeals for information on someone is that everyone will want to know every detail of what happened, will discuss it, and dissect it publicly.
Imagine a situation where someone in our technology community quietly embarks on a suicide plan, as many people do every day. Once the word has gone out and a public search starts, there is an enormous pressure to go through with it successfully. Knowing that you're going to step back into a shitstorm of thousands of people asking what's happened. Which is going to encircle your name for a long time, if not forever.
I'm not saying there's anything to learn from this - it's just something to consider. I am in no way questioning the judgement of friends raising the alarm. It's just that strangers will feel, rightly or wrongly, that having read, and perhaps spread, an appeal that they are entitled to know the details of the outcome.
* I have absolutely no idea what's happened in this case.
Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#7I haven't been able to read this status update (it keeps timing out for some reason), so I'm just going off the title here. * The downside of these hugely public, and permanent, appeals for information on someone is that everyone will want to know every detail of what happened, will discuss it, and dissect it publicly. Imagine a situation where someone in our technology community quietly embarks on a suicide plan, as…
The headline says it all. Both the Facebook page and the website offer no additional information. I'm glad she's safe.
Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#8Thats great to hear. A little surprised it took 3 days to find her in a hospital. Hope she is okay.
She may have only just checked in recently.
Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#9So what happened?
While lots of us are nosy enough to want to know, the answer is that it isn't any of our business. If she wants to say, she will... presumably after she gets out of the hospital.
Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
#10From the Facebook comments:
Timothy Joseph: Thank God! I'm so happy to hear this! What a great company to have done this. I wonder if my employer would have done this for me.
That is an interesting question. If someone where I work (ClearChannel, owner of over 850 radio stations, and dozens of high-profile websites like RushLimbaugh.com and GlennBeck.com) went missing, I wonder what company resources would/could be used to aid in a search effort.