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Do Online Comments Bug You?

A doctor’s group is warning that teens who obsess over the online social network site, Facebook, may suffer from a specific type of depression. You can read the Associated Press story about it here. I assume it’s much worse for teens, but reading online nastiness can affect all of us. In my years working at the Tribune, I’ve been on the receiving end of quite a few nastygrams and anonymous phone calls and taking a dip into reading the comments on the Tribune’s online news stories can make me want to grab a jumbo can of disinfectant. What might have sent me into a tailspin in my teens makes me shrug and shake my head now/Jeanne DePaul, Virtual Deadlines. More here.

Question: Do online posts or comments bother you or are you pretty good at letting them slide?



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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