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Handle Online Attacks Effectively

March 18, 2010

couple fighting A personal attack is committed when a person substitutes abusive remarks for evidence when attacking another person’s claim or claims. This line of “reasoning” is fallacious because the attack is directed at the person making the claim and not the claim itself.

If you’ve been  personally attacked online my advice is to consider failing to engage or delaying engagement.  If you must respond,  then do so calmly.  Take the time to  demonstrate there is no merit to statements made and others will think better of you for not losing your cool.

Hopefully you will never need have to deal with a serious attack  but if you do  and want to see it  removed, you need to contact whoever controls that content. Most often, this means that you need to contact the author and/or webmaster of the page and ask them to take down the content in question.

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Password stealing hackers target Facebook users

March 18, 2010

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Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive personal  information.

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Basic Netiquette for Beginner Bloggers

March 16, 2010
by timethief
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If you are courteous off-line then behaving the same way online is not problematic, because online courtesy is primarily a matter of common sense,  and thinking twice before you post. There are some extras  that are specific to online communication but they are easily learned.  If you are new to blogging and are not aware of   Netiquette, then you may  want to consult  Netiquette Guidelines. read more…

Silverlight for Facebook

March 15, 2010

There are many Facebook apps but from what I hear Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta sounds like it leaves the other apps in the dust. It’s a dark beauty that brings it all together so you can for navigate your Facebook account, and much more. So, readers have you tried it and if so would you care to share your experience? read more…