10 Online Reputation Facts That You Need To Know About

The internet has changed the way we view our reputations. Today, you can search just about any of your friends, find out what they did last weekend and who they did it with. You can find photos, videos and much more from the comfort and secrecy of your own home. Not only can you do this with friends, but with businesses too.
Want to find a great Chinese food place? Do a quick search on Yelp.com or Yellowpages.com and within seconds you will have pages of results, all with reviews posted by current or ex-customers. Within seconds you will make longterm decisions about a business that you may have never even seen except for a picture on a computer screen.
While this advance in technology has allowed us to connect on a level never before possible, it has also brought with it a laundry list of negative externalities. The problem isn't the technology itself, but the speed with which it enters our lives. The internet has turned into the American Wild West of old. The expansion of the internet is outrunning and outgunning law enforcement, social norms and ethics. Anybody with an internet connection and a keyboard can say anything they want to, about whomever they want to, and avoid any type of criminal punishment.