http://www.netsquared.org/tags/antisocial share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/blogging-the-darker-side <p>When we talk of social tools, especially here, there&#39;s often the assumtion that these tools are being used in a beneficial way, to collaborate share and engage.</p> <p>Yet there are circumstances, when, fired with enthusiasm for a shared purpose, one attempts to engage with no response. Some even turn off the ability to add comments,&nbsp; rendering perhaps a pulpit, more than a social space. I&#39;ve even seen social efforts being pilloried in these kinds of blogs, with all sorts of defamation as content. I&#39;ve even encountered bloggers who go overseas where cyber crime laws are more lax to take advantage of the freedom.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/blogging-the-darker-side">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jeff-mowatt/blogging-the-darker-side#comments antisocial blog competition libel Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:46:44 -0400 Jeff Mowatt 2526 at http://www.netsquared.org