This article is an ESPN article written about 3 weeks ago about a Dayton native, who died and his friends ability to get in touch with his favorite athlete Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals through twitter and facebook.
For those of you who do not know, Ochocinco is an avid twitter to the point in which he allegedly never drinks or enjoys much of a night life and instead just tweets all the time.
This story was about Chris Kernich, a former Kent State wide receiver who had died in late November of 2009. Chris was an avid fan of Ochocinco's, and followed his twitter account religiously through his own, conveniently named OGOchoCinco.
Late in November, when out celebrating his 23rd birthday with his friends. Kernich and a few others were attacked during their walk home at about 2:23 a.m. leaving Kernich on life support for a couple weeks until he had eventually died.
The story talks about Kernich's friends attempts to get a hold of Ochocinco through the various social mediums we have today that weren't present ten years ago.
Friends barraged Ochocinco's twitter account asking him if he could visit Kernich in the hospital or give their family a call with little or no success. Then they searched facebook and asked everyone they knew if they had any way of getting a hold of Ochocinco, and found someone who knew one of the assistant coaches of the Bengals. They eventually got in contact with him and asked if he could talk to Ochocinco for them and he eventually did, and Ochocinco ended up calling them eventually but unfortunately it was less than a day after Kernich had died.
It was a really powerful article I think, that really captivated the massive pull that social media sites have on our society today, and I think it was really cool to see that Ochocinco had tweeted before his next game after Kernich's death that he was dedicating his performance to Kernich, one of his biggest fans.
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