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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I question, on a what-does-it-say-about-us-on-a-cultural level, whether MJ's death should be the kind of event like 9/11 that slows the internet, but that's a different thread all together. I've got nothing against him, certainly, but it's weird that a pure pop star celebrity has turned out to be as significant in death to us as he has.
Even with the "slow" internet, information still got around a lot faster than I think it would have pre-net, and that's kind of the amazing part about it. How quickly after 911 was called did you know about Michael's collapse?
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I got word within the hour. A lot of it has to do with social networking sites (Twitter) and tabloid sites (TMZ) becoming more popular. I'm sure if we had these things in 2001, we would have heard news just as quickly.
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