Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions
I think we’ve all been preparing for something like this for a while now. I agree with the writer that in a few years youthful (or not so youthful) indiscretions will amount to nothing more than a few chuckles. We’re all fallible and I think I would be more wary of someone who hasn’t ruffled a few feathers along the way.
But I’m also really, really against this being an anonymous service. If you’re going to throw someone under the bus, you should have the balls to show your face. Seriously. The service should be responsible enough to put little emphasis on anonymous reviews. Shutting down a business because of bad reviews is a far cry from shutting down a person’s ability to be a productive member of society.
Maybe we should all start protecting our reputations by forming personal LLCs, that way if our reputation goes bankrupt, we can start over with a clean slate. ;)
I know this is a day old, so it’s already been commented on, but if you haven’t read it yet I highly recommend you do. Read it not for the commentary, but for the implications that a “Yelp, for people” has in the connected world. Privacy, for all intents and purposes, is about to go through a more dynamic shift than ever before. It’s been said before that we live in public, but it’s about to become literally true.
