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I don't think Netflix's bandwidth usage poses a hazard to the functioning of hospitals, military bases and the like... as King said, that sounds like fear mongering.
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- Jun 6, 2012
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@King @Official OWECheer thanks for the feedback. Lol, I can't blame the media this time, it was a concern of my own. I didn't want Uncle Bob's medical file being slowed down, because I was streaming reruns of The Office.
- Dec 4, 2009
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Be more worried about it being encrypted and secure than if there's enough bandwidth. Bandwidth is CHEAP and ubiquitous.
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Anybody else going to the Steubenville Youth Conferce at the main campus this year? :P
- Apr 8, 2011
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I know I am biased and y'all know I'm not the biggest CU fan (I also haven't followed him in years, but he still gets retweeted on my twitter occasionally, which is what brings me here)... but does anyone else feel it crosses a line that he has to "break news" of athletes who have passed away*? I know our sport is made up of children and the death of any of them is shocking and heartbreaking and maybe he just wants to send condolences to the program... but like can you call them personally? Send flowers and a card? Why does it need to be tweeted out to the masses?
*If there's a fundraiser or something else involved that sharing on his platform could help the family, I get it in that aspect, but usually there is not or that gets shared separately.
I get when gyms do it, because it's a smaller audience. IDK. maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
*If there's a fundraiser or something else involved that sharing on his platform could help the family, I get it in that aspect, but usually there is not or that gets shared separately.
I get when gyms do it, because it's a smaller audience. IDK. maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
- Oct 14, 2012
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It does slightly irk me as well. I have to wonder if he gets permission from the gym to share it. Or decides that if the gym is sharing it, he can too. I'm sure he does it purely out of a caring nature, and im sure most parents don't have twitter... But if I was in that situation I dont know how I'd feel if some random cheer twitter spread a photo of my kid to millions of strangers, idk.
- Apr 8, 2011
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Right. I don't want to be negative nancy here... but today it appears he posted before the gym itself did and I just pictured my kid finding out a teammate/old friend/friendly competitor had passed by a stranger on twitter before someone was able to tell them privately, for them to process it with an adult and in their own time.
I guess I just hope he has permission, that's all.
- Dec 14, 2009
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It's not my preference either and I think it's a fair criticism.
If I were connected to a person who had passed, theres a million reasons I wouldn't want to see it on social media in general like:
- There are things I'd like to handle privately and wouldn't want to see on social media .
- I wouldn't want condolences from people who I didn't know/didn't know them.
- I wouldn't want to see someone tweeting about it for profit/for sympathy/for "letting others know"/etc when they didn't know them. (Especially from someone I do not respect.)
- I wouldn't want it posted on a platform where people I don't know can publically speculate on what happened.
- What you said, if I was a parent, I'd want my child to find out through me or someone close and I'd want to be able to be there for them to talk about it without the social media part happening. And if I were a friend, I'd want to find out from a coach, another friend, gym owner, team mate, family memeber, etc - not by seeing it retweeted with a collection of emojis from people I did not know.
Maybe it's just because I'm a private person and losing someone is a sad and personal thing. Losing a child comes with a whole other array of emotions for everyone involved at all ages. If it HAD to be made public, I would ask the reporting outlet to wait a day or so, and would hope they'd link to a post written by the family - or from the gym if it was cheer related.
I know the legitimate news outlets try their best to keep names of people who have been killed/who have passed away out of the media until the family members are told. It'd be nice to see the same level of respect out of unofficial news outlets too.
Just my unwanted two cents.
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- Jun 6, 2012
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Shimmy a billion times ^^^^ Twice, and recently, close friends have had family deaths mentioned on social media before all close family and friends were notified. On one of them, the child was in an accident and the parents were on a flight to be with them. They found out when they landed and the plane was taxiing their child had died by a Facebook post and a hundred texts saying "what happened?". Social media is NOT the place for people to post their pics with "RIP" and "Taken away too soon" comments until after the memorial or funeral is posted by the family.
- May 7, 2012
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I'm having issues with the site from my phone, it keeps logging me out. Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
- Jun 13, 2010
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Annnnd my morning started off just lovely...
Getting ready for work, just 10 minutes before I leave for the bus, and my dog (Lab- just turned one) came down the stairs with me. He likes to poke butts with his nose so he started doing this. I went to pat his nose away and ended up slipping on the last step. Sprained my ankle this morning. Now I look like an idiot hobbling around my building. And of course I'm the only one in my office today so I have to do all the running around from floor to floor.
Not the way I wanted to start summer.
Getting ready for work, just 10 minutes before I leave for the bus, and my dog (Lab- just turned one) came down the stairs with me. He likes to poke butts with his nose so he started doing this. I went to pat his nose away and ended up slipping on the last step. Sprained my ankle this morning. Now I look like an idiot hobbling around my building. And of course I'm the only one in my office today so I have to do all the running around from floor to floor.
Not the way I wanted to start summer.
- Feb 4, 2010
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when you open fierceboard and Varsity is literally almost smacking you in the face :confused:
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Before or after they smack you in the face?
- May 18, 2011
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First thought I had. I spent a good amount of time staring at it confused about its presence.
