I really felt bad for this guy. I even feel a little sorry for his mom even though she was being ridiculous
*For those of you who don’t keep up with internet lingo like I have to for a current work project a “milkshake Duck” refers to a twitter joke about how sometimes things people like on the internet ( like a cute lil duck that drinks milkshakes) can suddenly be loathed ( like when it turns out the duck is a racist). A “ reverse milkshake duck” is when someone we initially thought poorly of based on media turns out to be a great person like this guy.
I’d say no mom of an adult should be posting anything about them on any social media platform. Indeed after babyhood I’d say it’s best to keep everything off unless you have permission. I will make birthday posts and graduation posts for my kids because they’ve indicated they like them.
I don’t use twitter. I think that encouraging all and sundry to broadcast their every passing thought is not a positive force in the world. It encourages the kind of twitterstorm where wild accusations, condemnations, and insults are thrown around recklessly and with abandon, with no regard to the human cost. I give you the example of the young woman who tweeted about the likelihood of her, as a white person, getting AIDS in South Africa, which she meant as a CRITICISM of the unequal state of health care. It was picked up by people who completely misunderstood her point, and by the time she got off the plane she was universally condemned as a vicious racist. She lost her job, her reputation, everything. And it was all based on a false assumption.
I suppose there are benign users. But does it outweigh the negatives? I think not. YMMV
