How do you feel about tweeting when celebrities die?

It is a little contrived, but I do feel celebrities are just kind of in a different zone.

I think it's a fine line between right self-aggrandizement or putting yourself in the middle of that story.

It should be okay if you want to say something about a celebrity because you're sad about it.

One that I'm like unfortunately anticipating, like Iggy Pop, when he passes away, I'll definitely do something.

I mean, I remember when Prince died and everyone was like losing their minds.

Tributes are nice.

What's wrong with that?

When it gets bad is when the person was controversial, then it just gets like really twisted out there.

I've also noticed that a lot of people post about artists where I've never heard them like really engaged with them before and it just kind of seems like they're jumping on a bandwagon.

Everything's open for comment when you're a celebrity.

When someone dies that they're very disassociated from and they're like, oh my gosh, like I'm going to miss him.

And I'm like, really you're going to miss him?

Like, you don't know him.

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And welcome to Why'd You Push That Button, a show where Caitlin Tiffany and Ashley Carmen, that's me, examine all the choices technology forces us to make.

Today, the time has come to put our death series to rest.

Part three of Death Online.

This is our final installment of the mini-series, and today

we are talking about why we tweet so much when celebrities die. If you're not familiar with

this phenomenon, which I... Of death. Of celebrities dying and people tweeting a lot about it.

I would like to take us on like a little journey back to about three years ago, Prince died.

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