EDDIE Howe says Bruno Guimaraes has learnt a "little lesson" from his social media rant - but the head coach also believes the Brazilian's blast shows how much he cares about Newcastle United.

Bruno angrily responded to a post from a fan site in the aftermath of the 1-0 defeat to Manchester City, which asked whether it was "too early in the season to start focusing blame on individual players" and whether there was an overreaction to the defeat at the Etihad.

Bruno reacted by criticising "short, stupid memories" but quickly deleted his post. Howe has confirmed that club staff discussed the matter with the midfielder this week, and while the head coach was keen to ensure he didn't criticise anyone for the spat, he believes Guimaraes will have learnt from the experience.

He said: “I'm certainly not going to criticise the supporters here. I think it's more a lesson for us. I choose not to be on social media for that exact reason, because I want a clear thought process.

“I don't want to pollute my thoughts with things that I read and avoid certain situations, so I take myself out of that environment.

“The players can choose to be on it, that's absolutely fine because that's their individual choice, but I think it's important that we don't overly react emotionally to certain things.

"Now, Bruno is a very emotional person and, I think you've seen on the pitch, it's so positive for us, that emotion. He uses it brilliantly, he has used it brilliantly to not just perform well, but build a feeling with the supporters because I think the supporters see how much it means to him.

“It's all positive in terms of that feeling that Bruno has, but this is just maybe a little lesson for him.

"We have people that will speak to him about his social media use. For me, we will move on very quickly because there's actually positive is what he's feeling, but maybe that's not the best forum to communicate that."

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While Howe chooses not to use social media, the Newcastle head coach knows that it's part and parcel of today's game that most of his players will be on various platforms. And while he admits there are positive aspects of the players using social media, he admits he does have concerns about the negative impact it can have.

"I don’t really know if I’m the best person qualified to give you an answer," he said.

"As I said, that’s very intentional from my perspective. Before I learnt as a player, the internet’s role in the early days was giving an opinion on your performance. I read it probably for two or three weeks how people thought I played - I didn’t like what I was reading, even when it was good or bad. Even when you’re being built up, I was like ‘I’ve got to live up to that next week’. So I got out of there and never went back as a player and carried that through.

"We're into a different generation. A lot of the young players now will have been on social media all of their lives or from a certain age, so it just becomes part of their daily routines potentially to look and to read and to be in that world. Once you're in it, it's slightly more difficult to come away from it, whereas when I was growing up it wasn't there.

"It's such a deep question, what can you do? It's one for psychologists or people who are trained in that area to advise the players. It's a very different dynamic to the one I had. Again, there can be positives and negatives to it, but I suppose because I wasn't exposed to it it wasn't something I needed to deal with."