BrainBank: People on the Internet Are People Too Edition

Here's your "pause for thought" moment of the day. Awhile back a photo was circulating the internet, of a mom on a Segway pushing her baby in a stroller. There was much merriment and mocking on behalf of the "lazy" mom; the photo was popular enough to get a derisive comment from Jason Chen, a writer for the popular gadget blog Gizmodo.

As it turns out, the mom in question, Melissa Hofstetter, is a cancer survivor who lost her left leg in the fight and understandably has some difficulty getting around. Just goes to show, context is everything.

Even though few people remember the article, Jason Chen just quite admirably resurrected the topic in order to give a heartfelt apology to Melissa and remind the internet community that the people in these photographs and videos that circulate the internet are, in fact, people; and it's often wiser to err on the side of understanding.