I would like to add a New Year's resolution that is more beneficial than dropping a few pounds and spending less cash. I want to challenge people to go gossip-free in their social media and social networking interactions.
Online gossip can leave reputations devastated, with no hope for recovery, and it has become an accepted form of bullying.
If people everywhere will pause to ask themselves if what they are about to text, tweet or post is private, aggressive, untruthful, sensitive or exaggerated -- and if so, refrain from posting it -- then we can make the information highway, an invaluable tool, a safer way to travel.
KEVIN HESTER, COLOMA, MICH.
