Online reputations are becoming controversial due to how easily reputations can be slighted by negative feedback. What we have on our Facebook and Twitter pages may no necessarily depict who we are yet this information often defines us in the eyes of an outsider or potential employer. Reputation is not only what we ourselves do, but takes into consideration what others say about us. How we are perceived to other people is often shaped by other people's opinions formed on what they see on our social networking page. Fortunately we can take measures to retaliate against these negative associations with our reputation.
We must consider who is in our network. Often we post things in the moment and don't realize that our whole community of 500+ friends is able to see what we are doing. A grandmother may not interpret actions in the same way a college student would hence it is important to realize who has access to what we are doing. We do not take into consideration the impact of what we are saying on our status' or photo comments until someone within our community actually calls it to our attention. Yes we can all remove our posts if its really necessary but sometimes the damage is already done. Just because you delete a comment doesn't mean that noone else already saw it for its 2 minute lifespan. If we cannot delete, we must compete. Rather than try to revoke what was said we must make a counter post to glorify the situation. On Facebook people delete posts that they find offensive; as if everyone who was online did not just see that post in their mini-feed 2 minutes ago.
Obviously reputation is affected by our actions and we need to be aware of how many people are monitoring us and who is monitoring us. We express things and think of only its momentary impact yet our online reputation can go from positive to negative in that same moment.
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