Comments on: Missing girl's father finds help through Twitter

Message regarding man's missing teenage daughter is spreading across the service at an extremely rapid rate.

[chrystaline]

That is not the father's website, it's someone claiming to be a friend of "Geno." The father's name is reported as Rob.

[Urkel.]

Sorry to be cynical but aren't people going to start faking stories like this just to get noticed? I hope the girl isn't missing for real, but if this story is real is then get her on the Amber Alert already.

[HlLLARY CLITON]

too many nuts on Twitter to be reliable

[fugawe]

While it's great that twitter is helping, I fear that this isn't a sustainable model, like a real Amber alert. Too many of these from unofficial sources (like this one) will just kill people's good will and they won't forward.

In this case, she's not even kidnapped or lost. She is a runaway. It's sad, but should twitter be using up what little karma it has for these efforts on a runaway. Each successive person to try this will get geometrically decreasing returns.

[ParentingMaven]

I realize that there will always be "nuts" and attention getters sending out false stories, but as a parent I feel it is always best to err on the side of helping a child.

She may "only" be a runaway, but that doesn't mean she is not in danger or that her parent's are any less worried.

Please take the time to at least check this story out, and see if there is anything you can do to help.

KarenKramer and
Nikki Maven
http://www.parentinghelpme.com

[aic71]

Red flags go up every time I see something like this We've had instances of faked abductions here in Madison, WI before. See http://tinyurl.com/2gbnd which is a national CNN article for more.

By the way, to those asking about AMBER Alerts, none can be issued in this case because it's a runaway situation, not an abduction.

[erinm33]

yea this is actually a true story. i know the girl, and i went to the school both were from. so yea. but they've been found.