Suppose you’re a self-respecting citizen of the online world. You’ve got a social networking site, a Twitter feed, maybe a Web site for a growing business. All is well in the electric world — until someone attacks you online. Someone you don’t know starts writing this malicious content, on blogs or other sites, stuff that constitutes downright libel. Suddenly, your online peace of mind is shattered, and worse still, your business may suffer from these attacks.

The net doesn’t fail to remember a thing. It’s drifting about out here, zillions of bits and bytes. Thus creating a fixed record because anything ever blogged or written online is stored somewhere permanently. Things travel round a tad, of course, however it all seems to hang around. Thusly anything electronegative written about you, libel it’s called, can break your character for years.

Writing online is a competitive business. The truth is that there is so much competition out there, it can often be hard to make enough money per hour.