I’ve been a bit behind on my blog reading lately and just came across David Byrne’s (yes THAT David Byrne) post from a couple of Saturday’s ago on Social “Hateworking”:

It seems to me that this was inevitable. Once you have the existence of social networking sites you have to take the bad with the good. While it might be nice to think that they are a place to meet “friends” and like minded folks, it is just as likely to be a place to make enemies, engage in gossip, spread rumors, scratch and claw. These are a big part of social life in the real world, and to think that the online world would just be about nice stuff and making friends, well…

 The stories in the referenced Financial Times article are a little scary. Be careful out there people.