Tag: Online Communities

• Trolls and Insults….If all you can do is call me names then you have run out of facts!

  Often on Twitter I am witness to many different conversations both great, good, bad and truly vile. One I just witnessed was the use of the insult: Unfortunately, the insult landed. VanBadham’s father recently died (of cancer on the 19th March 2013). Her response to my (and many many others) sympathy and to the insults […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 31, 2013

  Personal, Politics, Social Media

  Facebook, Insult, Online Communities, Percentage, Politics, Social Networking, Trolls, Twitter, Van Badham

• Hope She’s Right

  Two days after being burgled, this happened on twitter! Thank you @whatjanesays!

  Andrew Whalan

  March 2, 2013

  Humour, Personal

  Online Communities, Social Networking, Twitter

• Being Strategic About Trolling

  

  Recently I was trolled on Facebook. Someone left some rather unsavoury comments on a photo I posted.   After some thought and some research, I deleted the post and blocked the person from Facebook. The personal effects on me are just that, private and personal. But it raises some questions for me and for anyone […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 31, 2012

  Personal, Social Media

  Facebook, Google, Online Communities, Personal Effects, Social media, Social network, Troll, Twitter