I read a lot more than I ever post on the www.
However I do read my local news website daily. its www.theboltonnews.co.uk.
I flicked through a couple of times today, and there was an article regading a 'no smoking' bus that was touring the town. A journalist had visited the bus and written a very positive report about what she experienced there, and how it had encouraged her to give up smoking. As a smoker myself (yes I know... its bad), I appreciate comments from a smoker and the effect this visit had upon her thinking.
Anyhows... I digress. Before too long comments started to appear about this article, with gradual insults thrown in, the reporter pictured was overweight/ insults about obesisty etc etc etc,
Before you knew it, local comments were refering to blowing up all the local mosques, and on and on it went!
Well, when I got home the thread had been removed fromt he website, evidently it had got out of hand!
But is got me thinking, we have a massive diversity of people who post on this site, and very few of us have the comfort of communitcating via this board with people we live with locally and know local communtiy issues.
Disagreements in oppinions do sometimes arise. This is true, I know there have been occasions where I have disagreed with views expressed, and will make a response.
However, I personally have never seen the level of abuse and insults being thrown about on this board as I have on the site named above.
I think YOU ARE ALL great!
Shell69