when social networking sites become catty

A famous high profile couple in the media complained about the way the social networking chatters  put down their new child physically. I admit that the chatters were rather catty as they should not have descended to that level at all. 

Looking back to the history of the couple however, who paraded their "unusual love affair" on TV, showing how they love each other, reporting their wedding from start to finish, showed their own insensitivity to the children of the man by his first wife. The broadcast seemed to rub too much salt on the feelings of the first wife, as if it was telling her, "you see it's me that he loves." The children too could have felt aggrieved over the insensitive portrayal of their father, now being "lovey-dovey" with a woman, not her mother. Folks, do you think that just because those children were in a foreign land that then they would not know what is going on with their father and that they would not feel anything at all in his taking up a new relationship?

But to my mind, the catty social networkers could have been overextending their application of their traditional notions of what a "valid" marriage should be-- one that is monogamous till death do the couple apart. They should join the movement for divorce; also while there is no divorce law yet, the couple must understand that their relationship is up for questioning in a highly, (perhaps hypocritical) society.