For all its benefits, the power of social networking can also raise some troubling issues. In a dispatch from Shanghai this week, The New York Times reported on a vigilante movement involving tens of thousands of strangers inspired to hunt down a university student who supposedly was having an affair with a man's wife.
As extreme as this case may seem, cyberspace can be a breeding ground for mob mentality anywhere–and, in smaller numbers, it may already have begun in the United States.
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