I wholeheartedly agree Larry. Which is why I wanted to get in early and see what it's about. Reputations are tough to build and easy to tear down, ask a famous golfer whose going through that now. So for a company to say they can provide the "unvarnished" truth about someone is a little misleading. Everyone looks at everyone else through their own tinted glasses. To put that on a website, regardless of the "level of the reviewer", is a path I wish they had not gone down. I'm guessing they will be drawn into defamation of character cases at some point. Wonder if they are ready for that.
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Larry Medina
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Subject: Re: RAINdrip: Easy to get your reputation Tarnished, thanks to 'Unvarnished'
It's still in Beta, but that doesn't mean that if something is built out
there it won't remain on the Interwebs potentially forever (or fornever,
which ever/never comes first)
If you have a Facebook account, under your real identity (or a fabricated
one), you can establish an Unvarnished account and then build a reputation
page on yourself or whomever at will. To provide input to a page once
established, you have to be invited.
A big part of the concern is if someone were to build a page about, say...
YOU... you wouldn't know about it until you happened upon it, or someone
else did and told you. And I don't see where there is a process or policy
statement that shows how YOU could request/demand to have a 'spoofed' page
taken down if one did appear, nor that they bear any liability or
responsibility for the content.
And again, once it goes up, the content can go viral, be captured by or
linked to by others, appear in blog posts, etc and potentially last forever
to be found in searches on tools such as pipl.com, spokeo.com, and so on.
It's just like the world infamous Snoop Dogg said about the Twitter accounts
set up in his name ("because everyone knows Doggs don't Tweet"):
"Man, I got people comin' up to me sayin' 'Yo, Snoop I'm followin' you' and
when I turn around, I don't see nobody and I got no idea what they talkin'
about!!"
Same thing with many others- Keith Olbermann jokingly said he was finally
agreeing to set up a Twitter account, but he found out there were already 5
in his name, many with his likeness shown as the avatar.
And there is THIS famous Twitter account that although I KNOW IT'S WRONG TO
LAUGH AT IT, you can't help but chuckle a bit...
http://twitter.com/steviewonder_
Larry
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