Re: Social Networking, Blogs and Quoting People

This is a really interesting question.

If somebody wants to say that they listened to Jon Baker and he was brilliant, I'd be happy regardless of them "asking permission". I guess most people would be happy under those circumstances. Do people need my permission if they want to say I was rubbish, no - if it's factual (legal view might be interesting there lol) - but we ALL do this from time to time (I was recently in xyz shop, the service was rubbish....).

If they're quoting text and copying bits of what I said to use I might like to talk about it first. However, that really depends on what the context is, more than what they're going to say. If they were going to pass off my material as theirs for profit, that's very different to saying somewhere Jon Baker said "xxxxxx". Of course, if I actually said "xx xxx xx" and they're misquoting me this is something different again.

If I'm being misquoted because I wasn't properly understood, it's my fault not the fault of the medium in which I was presenting (be it Facebook, a public presentation or talking at a networking event), it's my fault for not being properly understood.

But, in what way is this different to normal life? The ability to self publish (blogs, social networking etc) makes it easier to have a large audience when you misquote something, so there's a greater need to be careful. However, I'd still have some responsibility if I was misunderstood.