The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web

The social Web has given users great power: the ability to create and share content with people around the world–easily and quickly. The problem, of course, is that power is often not compatible with effective and clear thinking. The thought that germinated in an instant can be immortalized in perpetuity on the Web.

With the extraordinary growth of the Internet and the interlinking of information that the social Web has brought with it, it’s time to examine the footprints we leave on the Web as we move into the future that promises to “throttle the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ from turning into the ‘madness of the mobs,’” as described so eloquently by Jason Calacanis.

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