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Skaug: Many Fear Confrontation

The virtual world has warped the way we work and interact with each other. People are willing to type and text things that they do not mean and would never say to someone’s face. Most message boards and online games are flooded with personal attacks, profanity and generally offensive remarks. In many ways, a person would probably find more wholesome conversation sitting in a bar full of drunks than reading what people have the courage to say in the unknown faceless cyber world. /Derrick Skaug, WSU Daily Evergreen. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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