Is someones post on facebook really worthy of news?

Ultimate it comes down to Freedom of speech being sensationalized and taken out of context to make a news story!

Ricky Gervais and the two gentleman your paper have put out of work in the last few weeks were merely speaking their minds or having some harmless banter,using terms of generalisation for what they feel mean silly or daft, get off your high horse you sanctomonious windbags!

it is far too easy to offend some people with comments, because it is far too difficult to express the context them. You cannot see the person to see if they really mean it, or if it was just light hearted banter.

British media doesn't help by making a mountain out of a mole hill just to fill some space. Don't take anything to heart and this wouldn't be big news, and internet bullying would be very rare as it would take physical bullying to be a problem.

Words can, and often do offend online, but they don't harm you - unless you let them mentally harm you.

Its ultimately something we are still all coming to grips with and these things probably have to happen so we can learn from it. Its just a shame that decent people sometimes have to pay with the income which supports themselves and/or family for the sake of some throw away comment which was inappropriately worded, misinterpreted and far away from what they truly mean or how they really feel.

So that being said, what turns us into fools on facebook? Ourselves or journalists and news articles sensationalising every word typed by those who perhaps simply had a bad day?