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7/22/2007

Interesting..and scary

The world of Web 2.0 is exciting, open and ever-changing. It can also be dangerous. Consider this: a new term, coined by SEOMoz.org writer/user randfish. In it, he coins the phrase Social Media Poisoning.

In this new world, anyone can say anything about anyone else and often with little verification or fact-checking.

So...if you do not like someone personally or they looked at you the wrong way or if they are your biggest competitor, you have the entire World Wide Web as your forum for venting. Free speech is great but as we learned from Spiderman, with great power comes great responsibility. It is pretty darn easy to be negative, to exaggerate or even to lie with the veil of anonymity and the strength of the written word supporting you.

We need to take so much of what we read with that proverbial grain of salt, huh?

Read the full post here. As randfish writes, this is possibly the most insidious negative tactic out there.

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