Comments on: Social Media needs disclosure aka you can’t tell the vendors from the regular folk http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/09/social-media-needs-disclosure-aka-you-cant-tell-the-vendors-from-the-regular-folk/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Judie Lipsetthttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/09/social-media-needs-disclosure-aka-you-cant-tell-the-vendors-from-the-regular-folk/#comment-41003 Judie Lipsett Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:16:32 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17448#comment-41003 BUSTED. Good sleuthing job there, Wayne. :-P BUSTED. Good sleuthing job there, Wayne. :-P

]]> By: Christopher Gavulahttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/09/social-media-needs-disclosure-aka-you-cant-tell-the-vendors-from-the-regular-folk/#comment-41002 Christopher Gavula Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:49:55 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17448#comment-41002 Thanks for mentioning this. It really is an excellent reminder. It extends on a rant I posted some months back: http://www.geardiary.com/2008/05/04/when-good-opinions-go-bad/ My rant was more about misleading "news" articles with hidden or simply unstated biases, etc., but what you say points out that this notion of "doing your research" really should extend to ANY communications - especially ones on the Internet. The point is - KNOW who you are talkiing to and what the motivation might be for their communique. The Internet makes it much easier for people to operate in a semi-anonymous way. Sometimes that's meaningless, sometimes it hides ulterior motives. Please - DO the research! Thanks for mentioning this. It really is an excellent reminder. It extends on a rant I posted some months back:

http://www.geardiary.com/2008/05/04/when-good-opinions-go-bad/

My rant was more about misleading “news” articles with hidden or simply unstated biases, etc., but what you say points out that this notion of “doing your research” really should extend to ANY communications – especially ones on the Internet. The point is – KNOW who you are talkiing to and what the motivation might be for their communique.

The Internet makes it much easier for people to operate in a semi-anonymous way. Sometimes that’s meaningless, sometimes it hides ulterior motives. Please – DO the research!

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