From telephone calls,
to texting to Twitter, there are many different ways to communicate with people
and the digital age and dawn of the social web has made it easier than ever to
communicate with anybody, including famous stars.
Whether this is a good thing is up for debate though as no
matter how many fans a celebrity has, there will always be a small minority
that seem to be vocal in their dislike for someone. There have been two
instances of the dark side of Twitter this week. The first relates to teen Team
GB diver Tom Daley who cruelly received a tweet saying that his deceased father
would be disappointed he didn’t win gold. The youngster responsible for the
tweet was given a warning from the police and rightly so. There is no need to
purposely set out to cause pain to another and use Twitter as a way to hide.
The other is still Olympics related but a little more
mysterious as presenter Helen Skelton reported she is leaving Twitter as she is
not thick skinned enough, but there is no concrete reason for why. Her profile
is now closed and no longer available after she left a goodbye tweet.
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