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HOW TO DEAL WITH TROLLS AS A CELEBRITY

Internet trolling is one of the many negatives celebrities who are active online have to deal with. Unlike the past where internet penetration levels were low, and a lot of people weren't online, celebrities these days wake up to daily fights with trolls. Wikipedia describes a troll as a person who sows discord on the internet by trying to start arguments and upset people. The troll’s way of upsetting a celebrity or public figure may either be by dissing them, unnecessarily comparing them to a competitor in the same field or veering off a question asked by the celebrity and go on the offensive. Weeks ago, an actress was in the news for all the wrong reasons because she insulted a supposed fan for calling her (actress) a  drag  queen. The actress took time to go through the said fan’s picture collections and re posted one describing the said fan in an equally distasteful manner. Who wins? I thought it was completely unnecessary for that, and the resultant counter-attac...