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(Photographer/Lane Hartwell)

Earlier this summer I read a message on Twitter (an online microblogging platform) about a person who threatened suicide and stated he was headed to the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a person who I have met in person and has threatened suicide at least once before. It could have been very easy for me to brush this off as yet another attempt to grab attention and to not take his threat seriously, but someone who recently lost his brother to suicide pointed out any threat should be taken seriously:

"Attention or not, you have to treat every threat as if it is a REAL threat. Someone needs to act on this." - A. Tobias Tenney

In this article at The Post and Review I look at the differences between how Social Media and Broadcasters respond to suicidal threats and how suicide prevention professionals are adapting to these differences.