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The social Web, reputations & an election

November 9, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

Five years ago was, I think, was the first time I wrote about young Net users needing to be good spin doctors and get in touch with their inner political consultants. I was thinking more about protecting reputations and future prospects than opportunities to run for office. But now we’ve had the first election in which politicians have had to confront the social-Web skeletons in their closets, the New York Times pointed out yesterday. “Who knew it would happen so quickly?” the article asks. If you have a child running for class president or considering a political career, have him or her read this article, which aggregates a number of cases of politicians’ Web-based indiscretions gone very public. The Times writer suggests we’re in a transition time, with 20-something future leaders having come from a time when hardly anybody thought about what social-media researcher danah boyd calls “invisible publics” and before we all become pretty inured to seeing people’s party behavior turned into public indiscretions – inured due to sheer volume. “Still, it seems certain that, right now, the aspiring leaders of the United States are busy scrubbing their Facebook profiles of incriminating evidence, looking at those who have learned the hard way,” according to this article. Its writers don’t believe it’ll get easier for politicians as the social Web matures. They end with the view of Prof. Daniel J. Solove, author of The Future of Reputation, that human nature isn’t that forgiving. Do you agree? I’m not sure. Maybe not forgiving but maybe not as prone to shock or judgment about online indiscretion as we are now. I do think we have a lot of work to do in new-media literacy and citizenship, but I also think kids have already gotten smarter about all this than some of these young politicians were in 2006.

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Filed Under: digital footprint, reputation, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: 2010 election, digital footprint, digital trail, Facebook, public image, reputation management, Social Media, spin control

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