{"id":10417,"date":"2017-09-23T11:31:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/?p=10417"},"modified":"2017-09-23T11:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T02:01:52","slug":"negative-business-comments-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/2017\/09\/23\/negative-business-comments-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative business comments on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the prevalent use of social media, businesses must now face personal or business disagreements being aired in these very public forums. These may be ex-partners, customers, employees or even business associates. And there\u2019s no doubt that negative, unflattering or insulting comments online may impact business.<\/p>\n<p>While as a small business owner you may want to consider a defamation suit, this is problematic because:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>You must suffer economic loss, which can be hard to quantify or prove<\/li>\n<li>It can be an expensive<\/li>\n<li>Court proceedings can be lengthy, and negative posts remain in public view while in progress, unless an injunction is obtained.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You do have other options though:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Report the post\/comments to the social media site and they may take them down.<\/li>\n<li>Instruct your solicitor to send a cease and desist letter, which can be a quick and cost effective method to stop unwanted activity.<\/li>\n<li>Obtain an intervention order.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If your business has been affected by negative comments on social media and you want to take action, <a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/contact\/\">make an appointment<\/a> with one of the experienced solicitors at Hume Taylor &amp; Co today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the prevalent use of social media, businesses must now face personal or business disagreements being aired in these very public forums. These may be ex-partners, customers, employees or even business associates. And there\u2019s no doubt that negative, unflattering or insulting comments online may impact business. While as a small business owner you may want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,158],"tags":[156,157,159],"yst_prominent_words":[263],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company","category-small-business","tag-cease-and-desist","tag-negative-comments","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}