Comments on: Networks of Trust are Vulnerable http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/19/networks-of-trust-are-vulnerable/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Guerilla Marketing Gone Wild | The Noisy Channel http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/19/networks-of-trust-are-vulnerable/comment-page-1/#comment-1228 Guerilla Marketing Gone Wild | The Noisy Channel Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:06:53 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=1027#comment-1228 [...] or online, are built on trust, and, as we’ve learned recently from the Madoff scandal, networks of trust are vulnerable. Perhaps universities should have been more proactive in establish their own Class of 2013 Facebook [...] [...] or online, are built on trust, and, as we’ve learned recently from the Madoff scandal, networks of trust are vulnerable. Perhaps universities should have been more proactive in establish their own Class of 2013 Facebook [...]

]]> By: Ron Miller http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/19/networks-of-trust-are-vulnerable/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 Ron Miller Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:58:04 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=1027#comment-1209 Daniel: You raise a valid point. While we build our networks of social contacts, it is especially prudent online to take extra caution and be careful whom you trust, but one thing that online does provide you is fairly instant feedback about a person. If someone is exposed as a phony, it gets out much faster than it would have in the past in an offline social network. That said, you can build real connections in online networks, but people are people, and you are going to come across the same range of human behavior in online networks that you would find offline (for better or worse). In that sense, we should all view this as a cautionary tale. Ron Miller By Ron Miller Blog http://byronmiller.typepad.com Daniel:
You raise a valid point. While we build our networks of social contacts, it is especially prudent online to take extra caution and be careful whom you trust, but one thing that online does provide you is fairly instant feedback about a person. If someone is exposed as a phony, it gets out much faster than it would have in the past in an offline social network.

That said, you can build real connections in online networks, but people are people, and you are going to come across the same range of human behavior in online networks that you would find offline (for better or worse). In that sense, we should all view this as a cautionary tale.

Ron Miller
By Ron Miller Blog
http://byronmiller.typepad.com

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