..to think that the 'celebrity' tweets to Amanda Holden are actually quite vulgar and narcissistic?

[MsKLo]

I mean really - do these vulgar
vulgar 'celebs' really think their twitter page is the right place to offer this poor woman condolences on the loss of her child?

People like Mylene Klass, Holly Willoughby, James Corden, Piers Morgan, Davina McCall, Richard Madeley, Emma Bunton, etc etc should be ashamed of themselves. If they wanted to offer condolences why advertise it on their twitter page? Send a condolence card, ring, send flowers or visit etc - don't TWEET!

They should be ashamed of themselves - fuckwits.

If they know her, they should send a private message.
If they don't know her, they should butt out. If I'd lost a baby I wouldn't want someone I'd never met stopping me in the supermarket to express their sympathy.

You can only contact another person on Twitter privately if you are following each other.

I see it as an expression of condolence, just as we used to send cards.

Those who use Twitter do build up a "network" of friends. When I tweeted that my uncle had died, I had dozens of messages. They comforted me somehow.

Another Twitter buddy said today that when she lost her son, the messages of condolences from her Twitter friends were important to her.

The subject is in the title, if you arent going to like it, dont look. Thats what I do with most things.

altinkum, that is awful that someone said that it really is. it was not my intention to be in bad taste by starting this thread and i personally dont think it is although if something like that was said again that would be so so wrong. all i wanted to point out, after talking to friends and seeing the tweets mentioned in papers, was that i found this modern way of celebs sending condolences very wrong and wanted to see what others thought

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MmeLindt

that is very interesting to know - thanks for the contribution, maybe I need to look at it differently then and that it is a modern way to do things

You see, I dont have any Twitter friends. In that very few of my friends use it and we wouldnt bother following each other we are too boring! I save my friends for facebook.

I do think its celebs ego stroking each other, its annoying as Im sure that swarmy Britains got talent judge knows Amanda very well, all he had to do was send a card, not tell the nation how bad he felt for Amanda.

this is a place for debate altinkum and i was merely expressing that i find the modern twitter way to send condolences quite vulgar and wanted to see how others thought. i see nothing wrong with that

the bad taste card could be thrown at the majority of threads started here methinks

we'll have to agree to disagree

I do find MmeLindt's post an eye opener though

Kittya yes, you wouldnt see what was said to Amanda just by following her. You would only see what someone else has said IF you follow them.

With the Shane Warne/Liz Hurley debacle, you would only see what one half of the convo is if you only follow Liz for example.. so you would see her speaking to him, ie a comment to @shanewarne and know it was to him, but if you didnt follow him you wouldnt see his reply unless you did a search for all posts with @lizhurley in them..

Please stop apologising MsKlo, you have done nothing wrong and I have seen much viler insensitive threads in my time on here. You have opened up a debate about something very "now" and it is worth talking about. No-one is being nasty, just having a conversation.

kittya "No one is being nasty" er apart from bitching about a whole lot of named people, saying they should be ashamed of themselves and calling them "fuckwits"

mrsklo commenting on the bad taste of a thread is not weird. Challenging something that is written in poor taste is the right thing to do. And is exactly what you have tried to do with your OP.

dear god Bubble, it sounds too much like hard work!! who has got the time but, journalists?

I havent called anyone a fuckwit at all. Is it been bitchy to say that its not to our tastes, all this public ego stroking? cos thats what it is.

Where did I say they were fuckwits?

I posted something on my facebook saying howsad it was. I think tweeting about it is fine but posting something 'at' her (so on her twitter page or on her wall) would be crass.

I dont have many real life friends on Twitter, I just tend to follow people who are in the public eye, mostly actors, who I like and who interest me, and maybe a few others like Katie Price / Kerry Katona who always amuse me with their poor literacy, and posting before thinking syndrome...

I like following my favourite bands/musicians too if they are on there, as often they will tweet new gig dates, tv appearances etc that I would otherwise miss.

I have also had a few "conversations" with a couple of my favourite authors too, which was quite good fun, as they do take the time to reply back to their followers.

She may or may not take comfort from it, the zelebs may or may not tweet/facebook/whatever and send a card offering their support about it....

If you view it as the zeleb only doing it for one up man ship rather than a well meant public gesture of condolance, then that is the problem...

I see it as the latter.

I agree altinkum, no apologies needed from anyone.

kittya I didn't say you called anyone a fuckwit. The op did. You claimed no one was being nasty I pointed out that people were. Tis all.

i am not apologising at all, just trying to explain and i do think the celebs who twittered are fuckwits!

I havent called anyone that for years

yanbu I thought exactly tjhe same

It seems to be a sign of the times, sadly.

YANBU - I completely agree, but am disgusted to discover that I have something in common with Jan Moir. I think that the media is also responsible for this as the tweets get treated as news, for example the BBC website quoted Piers Morgan and Lorraine Kelly's tweets and listed other celebrities who had tweeted. This only encourages celebrities to tweet inappropriately.