Why is Kevin Federline...excuse me, K-Fed, so famous? Simple: paparazzi. Their infectuous disease is everywhere. Now, that disease has been transferred to MySpace, Facebook, and more or less in general: the Internet. In case I didn't care enough about what Jessica Simpson did in her free time, now I can worry about what I do in my spare time. I have to worry about the internet paparazzi coming back to haunt me down the road. How many people have pictures of illicit drug use? Underage drinking? Anything else that could haunt your career? Either way you are/can be front page news.
And yet, why use Facebook? Why use MySpace? I don't know but i do both. They are almost social norms and necessary, otherwise you are an outcast. We joke amongst my friends that we cannot be friends in real life unless we are friends on Facebook. Yet, I don't want the whole world knowing what I'm doing...or do I? No, I tell myself, I don't. I HATE all of those magazines that are meant to create gossip yet have a high profit margin. Reality check: WHO CARES WHAT CELEBRITIES DO IN THEIR FREE TIME? I DON'T! Guess what? They slip up and make mistakes too!
So, naturally humans have created programs to clean up profiles. One, for instance, is called Reputation Defender. There is a fee associated with the service. While the service sounds nice, Uncle Mike can save you money while not using it (though you do lose the benefits of social networking): DELETE YOUR PROFILE! DELETE YOUR SCREEN NAME! LIVE UNDER A ROCK! I guess I'll just have to learn to live with the fact that my life is always on the line. So much for running for President.
Blogging and social networking are just proof though that your online reputation supercedes your actual reputation. GREAAAAAAT. JUST what I needed.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
YAY! NOW we are ALL Celebrities
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I agree with ya mike, the similarities to celebrities and paparazzis is immense. In fact, it's even worse for us since its free to conduct a search online with Google about a person. It also is available at all times and can be found in seconds.
There is no hiding from this, however there is a way to deter the negative effects. You should try creating positive content about yourself and share it online. This will help filter our all the questionable pictures you don't want people seeing.
I like the term Internet paparazzi Mike. Great term to describe the whole reputation thing going on in the Internet. Unfortunately, this is the price that we have to pay for using the internet. Nothing is risk free!.
I agree with you that no one is perfect coz we are human beings and human beings do mistakes.
However, People could try to build a positive image and get advantage of the Internet reputation.
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