(HealthDay)—It's so tempting. You read something on a website about a button-pushing issue that makes you mad and you've got to respond. Before you know it, you're verbally sparring with a stranger.

Next time you’re seething, take a deep breath... and step away from the keyboard. Online venting is all the rage right now (see: forums designed specifically for complaining, like JustRage.com and ...

“While in the parlors of indignation,” Saul Bellow wrote, “the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil.” Bellow’s character Moses Herzog did that. Herzog wrote crank letters to ex-wives, to ...

The idea that “venting” anger has a beneficial cathartic effect is well entrenched in modern culture. Belief in the value of venting has manifested in the online world in the form of “rant” sites (e.g ...