Northwest Health District

Northwest Georgia Public Health District Facebook Comment Policy

Thank you for being a fan of Northwest Georgia Public Health District on Facebook. Northwest Georgia Public Health District participates in Facebook in order to engage individuals and organizations in leading healthier lives. Northwest Georgia Public Health District provides content on Facebook to encourage participation with our science-based messages and discussion of health information.

Disclaimer Posted comments and images do not necessarily represent the views of Northwest Georgia Public Health District. External, non-Northwest Georgia Public Health District links on this site do not constitute official endorsement on behalf of the Northwest Georgia Public Health District. While we encourage fans to share thoughts and opinions on the Facebook page, we expect that this will be done in a respectful manner.

Northwest Georgia Public Health District does not agree with or endorse every comment that individuals post on our page. Our goal is to share ideas and information with as many individuals as possible and our policy is to accept the majority of comments made to our profile.
Therefore, a comment will be deleted if it contains:

- Hate speech
- Profanity, obscenity or vulgarity
- Nudity in profile pictures
- Defamation to a person or people
- Name calling and/or personal attacks,
- Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product, and
- Comments that infringe on copyrights,
- Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile,
- Links to non-federal sites, and
- Other comments that the Northwest Georgia Public Health District Social Media team deems inappropriate.

We understand that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our moderation capabilities are not. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away, and we are trusting in the maturity of our community to ignore personal attacks and negative speech or respond politely