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Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by cperciva »

hellrich wrote: post #14
AlexMuir wrote: post #6

I 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…

Or if she fell victim to a crime - sadly more likely for a woman gone lost in a bar.

Or was in a car accident. Or had a heart attack. Or any number of other possible events which would result in someone being unconscious and treated at a hospital.

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by cldwalker »

Not all missing people stories have a happy ending. I have a relative who's been missing since Sept. 16, last seen in Riddle, Oregon. More info at http://findmark.org. We recently realized that he had his iPad with him. If you have any ideas on how we could use it to find him, I'm all ears.

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by eknuth »

cldwalker wrote: post #32

Not all missing people stories have a happy ending. I have a relative who's been missing since Sept. 16, last seen in Riddle, Oregon. More info at http://findmark.org . We recently realized that he had his iPad with him. If you have any ideas on how we could use it to find him, I'm all ears.

Sorry to hear that he is still missing. :(

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by iaskwhy »

AlexMuir wrote: post #6

I 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…

I'd say the attention span nowadays helps in cases like this one. People will carry on and nobody will know about her in the near future. Hopefully.

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by groby_b »

AlexMuir wrote: post #6

I 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…

That's nice speculation, but not how suicide usually works. You commit suicide because you feel there's no one left who cares about you. The idea that there are thousands of people asking you what happened works somewhat counter to that.

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by michaelschade »

cldwalker wrote: post #32

Not all missing people stories have a happy ending. I have a relative who's been missing since Sept. 16, last seen in Riddle, Oregon. More info at http://findmark.org . We recently realized that he had his iPad with him. If you have any ideas on how we could use it to find him, I'm all ears.

I assume you've already checked this, but just in case you haven't: is Find My iPad setup? If so, and if you can get access to his Apple account, then you can track it that way.

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by cpt1138 »

stevenp wrote: post #12

Thank God. I'm not used to stories like this having this kind of ending, so this is a welcome sigh of relief. Seeing how her friends and coworkers cared enough to start a massive online campaign to help find her reminded me of the importance of making connections and having people in my life who are looking out for me.

God had nothing to do with it. Pretty sure of that

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by lylejohnson »

dhimes wrote: post #11
AlexMuir wrote: post #6

I 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…

You are right. I do find myself wondering, even though it's none of my business, and suspecting the "worst" about a woman I don't know. Hopefully, she just went on a bender, had a absolute blast, but it got a little out of control- perhaps resulting in dehydration or something else without too much social stigma.

> Hopefully, she just went on a bender, had a absolute blast, but it got a little out of control- perhaps resulting in dehydration or something else without too much social stigma.

As long as we're using the absence of details as a springboard for wild speculation, we should also consider the possibility that she was kidnapped by a pack of wild monkeys.

Re: Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

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Post by eavc »

groby_b wrote: post #35
AlexMuir wrote: post #6

I 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…

That's nice speculation, but not how suicide usually works. You commit suicide because you feel there's no one left who cares about you. The idea that there are thousands of people asking you what happened works somewhat counter to that.

Do you have a source for that?
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