Mar
21
People’s life and reputation monitored online
Filed Under Rants
This came in by Google News Alert:
So ya, background can be checked, and I’m personally grateful to have reached the point in life where I couldn’t care less. BUT…
What’s terribly sad is that people can malign other people, even tell outright lies about them - and there is no way to counteract that which is found by Googling (or in private forums or venues, which still maligns, FYI).
Yup, of course there’s a personal application - among others.
It’s gotten back to me that some things have been said that are anything but the truth; in fact they’re quite the opposite - they’re diametrically opposed to facts, realilty or truth. OK, let’s call it what it is and say it’s outright lying - which I believe is malicious in intent, to put it mildly.
Deliberate? Of course. Do I care? Of course - not because of any expected reason, or that anything is public, because naturally it hasn’t been. The person isn’t that honest. But it’s maligning and damaging nevertheless.
What DOES bother me is that some people can reach a point of propogating their image of importance and prominence to the point that what they say is believed, even though they are, by reason of background, history and empirical evidence, nothing more than common liars.
There are too many people around nowadays who have managed their image and reputation to one of “respect and esteem” when the reality of the matter is that they are nothing more than pond scum who know how to market themselves well.